Summary
Overview
Key Readings
The four volumes cover six central themes in American Qualitative Research: (1) History, Ethics, Politics; (2) Paradigms (positivism, postpositivism, interpretive theory, queer theory, Marxism, feminism, cultural studies, standpoint theory; (3) Strategies of Inquiry (Ethnography, Case Study, Life Story, Historical Method, Grounded Theory, Action Research, Ethnomethodology); (4) Methods of Collecting Empirical Materials (Interview, Observation, Document Analysis, Visual Culture, Narrative Content, Semiotic Methods); (5) Interpretive Practices (Causal Modules, Interpretive Validity, Politics of Interpretation, Art of Writing; (6) The Future.
Editors' Introduction
The American tradition in qualitative research, the subject of this four volume series, is long and distinguished. In the 20th century it extends from the work of the early Chicago School sociologists through the present, in the work of the postmodern ethnographers who write and perform culture (see the readings by Geertz and Adler and Adler in Volume II; also Bryman and Burgess, 1999, pp. x–xi). This tradition is embedded in a complex historical field; indeed, Vidich and Lyman (in this volume) demonstrate how the ethnographic tradition reaches forward from the Greeks through the 15th- and 16th-century interests of Westerners in the origins of primitive cultures; to colonial ethnography connected to the empires of Spain, England, France, and Holland; to several ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I
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History, Ethics, Politics and Paradigms of Inquiry
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History and Ethics
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1. Qualitative Methods: Their History in Sociology and Anthropology
Arthur Vidich | Stanford Lyman
1994
Handbook of Qualitative Research
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Sol Tax
1975
Current Anthropology
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Howard Becker
1967
Social Problems
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4. Black Bourgeoisie: Public and Academic Reactions
E. Frazier
1964
Reflections on Community Studies
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5. Sociological Snoopers and Journalistic Moralizers: An Exchange
Nicholas von Hoffman
1970
The Values of Social Science
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6. Ethics: The Failure of Positivist Science
Yvonna Lincoln | Egon Guba
1989
The Review of Higher Education
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7. Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research
Yvonna Lincoln
1995
Qualitative Inquiry
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Positivism, Postpositivism and Constructivism
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8. Methodological Principles of Empirical Science
Herbert Blumer
1969
Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method
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9. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Donna Haraway
1988
Feminist Studies
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Feminism, Racialized Discourse, Critical Theory
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W. Du Bois
1998
Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition
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11. Research
Zora Hurston
1942
Dust Tracks On A Road
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12. A Blueprint for Negro Authors
Nick Ford
1998
Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition
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13. An American Dilemma: A Review
Ralph Ellison
1964
Shadow and Act
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14. The Homeland Aztland and Movimientos de Rebeldia y las Culturas que Traicionan
Gloria Anzaldúa
1987
Borderlands/La Frontera
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15. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology
Patricia Collins
1990
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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16. Saving Black Folk Culture: Zora Neale Hurston as Anthropologist and Writer
Bell Hooks
1990
Yearning
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Larry Neal
1998
Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition
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18. Coloring Epistemologies: Are Our Research Epistemologies Racially Biased?
James Scheurich | Michelle Young
1992
Educational Researcher
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19. A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s
Donna Haraway
1985
Socialist Review
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Poststructural and Postcolonial Theory
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20. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Clifford Geertz
1973
The Interpretation of Cultures
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Gayatri Spivak
1988
Marxism and the Interpretation of Cultures
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22. From Orientalism
Edward Said
1978
Orientalism
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Queer Theory
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Michel Foucault
1991
The Foucault Effect
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24. Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Judith Butler
1991
Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories. Gay Theories
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25. Preface to The Use of Pleasure
Michel Foucault
1984
The History of Sexuality, vol. 2, The Use of Pleasure
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Volume II
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Strategies of Inquiry
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Ethnography
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26. Revisiting Street Corner Society After Fifty Years
William Whyte
1993
Street Corner Society
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27. Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought
Clifford Geertz
1983
Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology
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28. Introduction: Out of Exile
Ruth Behar
1995
Women Writing Culture
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29. An End to Innocence: The Ethnography of Ethnography
John Van Maanen
1995
Representation in Ethnography
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30. The “Ethnographic Society” at Century's End: Clarifying the Role of Public Ethnography
Ken Plummer
1999
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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31. Fieldwork in the Era of Globalization
Arjun Appadurai
1997
Anthropology and Humanism
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32. The Ethnographers' Ball – Revisited
Patricia Adler | Peter Adler
1999
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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Performance Ethnography
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33. The Farmer's Daughter: A Performance Text
Michal McCall
2001
The Farmer's Daughter: A Performance Text
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34. Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics
Dwight Conquergood
1998
The Future of Performance Studies: Visions and Revisions
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35. Performing Theory/Embodied Writing
D. Madison
1999
Text and Performance Quarterly
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Case Study
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36. Value of Delinquent Boy's Own Story
Clifford Shaw
1930
A Delinquent Boy's Own Story
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37. Case Histories and Case Studies
Anselm Strauss | Barney Glaser
1970
Anguish: A Case History of a Dying Trajectory
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38. The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry
Robert Stake
1978
Educational Researcher
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39. Critique Checklist for a Case Study Report
Robert Stake
1995
The Art of Case Study Research
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Life History
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40. Suggested Outline to be Followed in Studying and Writing the Life History of a Deviant
Edwin Lemert
1951
Social Pathology: A Systematic Approach to the Theory of Sociopathic Behavior
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41. The Life Story Approach: A Continental View
Daniel Bertaux | Martin Kohli
1984
Annual Review of Sociology
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42. Life History and the Critique of American Sociological Practice
Paul Luken | Suzanne Vaughan
1999
Sociological Inquiry
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Testimonio
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43. Testimonio and Postmodernism
George Yúdice
1991
Latin American Perspectives
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Rigoberta Menchú
1984
I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
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David Stoll
1999
Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of the Poor Guatemalans
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46. Our Rigoberta? I, Rigoberta Menchú, Cultural Authority, and the Problem of Subaltern Agency
John Beverley
1999
Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory
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Grounded Theory
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47. The Discovery of Grounded Theory and Applying Grounded Theory
Barney Glaser | Anselm Strauss
1967
The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research
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48. Grounded Theory
Kathy Charmaz
1995
Rethinking Methods in Psychology
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49. Grounded Theory as an Emerging Paradigm for Computer-assisted Qualitative Data Analysis
Markku Lonkila
1995
Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis
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Interpretive Practices and Ethnomethodology
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Dorothy Smith
1974
Ethnomethodology: Selected Readings
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51. The Origins of the Term ‘Ethnomethodology’
Harold Garfinkel
1974
Ethnomethodology: Selected Readings
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52. Poststructuralist Theory as Political Necessity
Dorinne Kondo
1995
Amerasia Journal
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53. Analytic Ethnography: Features, Failings, and Futures
John Lofland
1995
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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54. Poetics of Voice and Maps of Space: Two Trends within Empirical Research in Cultural Studies
Paula Saukko
1998
European Journal of Cultural Studies
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55. At the Border of Narrative and Ethnography
Jaber Gubrium | James Holstein
1999
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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David Silverman
2000
The Handbook of Qualitative Research
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Action Research and Clinical Research
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Bronislaw Malinowski
1929
Africa
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Madeleine Leininger
1992
Qualitative Health Research
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59. Participatory Action Research: Through Practice to Science in Social Research
William Whyte | Davydd Greenwood | Peter Lazes
1989
American Behavioral Scientist
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60. Feminist Participatory Action Research: Methodological and Ethical Issues
Bev Gatenby | Maria Humphries
2000
Women's Studies International Forum
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Volume III
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Methods of Collecting Empirical Materials
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Interview
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61. Of Sociology and the Interview
Mark Benney | Everett Hughes
1956
The American Journal of Sociology
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62. Interviewing Women: A Contradiction In Terms
Ann Oakley
1982
Doing Feminist Research
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63. Kundera's Immortality: The Interview Society and the Invention of the Self
Paul Atkinson | David Silverman
1997
Qualitative Inquiry
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64. The Active Interview in Perspective
James Holstein | Jaber Gubrium
1995
The Active Interview
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Observation
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Barbara Tedlock
1991
Journal of Anthropological Research
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66. Rethinking Observation: From Method to Context
Michael Angrosino | Kimberly de Pérez
2000
Handbook of Qualitative Research
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Visual Methods
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67. Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson on The Use of the Camera in Anthropology
Gregory Bateson | Margaret Mead
1978
Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication
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68. The Performative Visual Anthropology Films of Zora Neale Hurston
Elaine Charnov
1998
Film Criticism
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Lee Brumbaugh
1996
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
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Autoethnography
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70. Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems, and Prospects
David Hayano
1979
Human Organization
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71. The Other Side of the Fence: Seeing Black and White in a Small Southern Town
Carolyn Ellis
1995
Qualitative Inquiry
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72. The Next Night Sous Rature: Wrestling with Derrida's Mimesis
Carol Ronai
1999
Qualitative Inquiry
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73. Torch
Stacy Jones
1999
Qualitative Inquiry
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Document Analysis and Material Culture
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74. The Case for Personal Documents
Gordon Allport
1942
The Use of Personal Documents in Psychological Science
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75. Ethical Considerations in Anthropology and Archaeology, or Relativism and Justice for All
Merrilee Salmon
1997
Journal of Anthropological Research
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76. Dialogics of Material Culture: Male and Female in Murik Outrigger Canoes
Kathleen Barlow | David Lipset
1997
American Ethnologist
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Narrative Methods
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77. The Challenge of Qualitative Content Analysis
Siegfried Kracauer
1952
Public Opinion Quarterly
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78. Myth Today
Roland Barthes
1972
Mythologies
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Stuart Hall
1993
The Cultural Studies Reader
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80. Grandma's Story
Trinh Minh-ha
1989
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
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Representing and Analyzing Empirical Materials
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81. The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research
Ralph Turner
1953
American Sociological Review
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Howard Becker
1986
Doing Things Together: Selected Papers
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83. Writing-Stories: Co-Authoring “The Sea Monster,” a Writing-Story
Laurel Richardson
1995
Qualitative Inquiry
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Focus Groups
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Robert Merton | Marjorie Fiske | Patricia Kendall
1990
The Focused Interview: A Manual of Problems and Procedures
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85. Focus Groups
Richard Krueger
1994
Focus Groups: A Practical Guide
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86. Focus Groups in Feminist Research
Esther Madriz
2000
Handbook of Qualitative Research
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Applied Ethnography
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87. Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology
Alvin Gouldner
1962
Social Problems
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Eleanor Lyon
1997
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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89. A Crisis of Representation in the Human Sciences
George Marcus | Michael Fischer
1986
Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
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Volume IV
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Interpretive Practices
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Interpretive Criteria
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90. Ethnographic Evaluation: A Theory and Method
Donald Dorr-Bremme
1985
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
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Politics and Practices of Interpretation
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91. Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism
Patti Lather
1993
The Sociological Quarterly
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92. Telling Tales of the South Pacific
Lola Romanucci-Ross
1991
Anthropological Poetics
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93. Multiple Subjectivities and Strategic Positionality: Zora Neale Hurston's Experimental Ethnographies
Graciela Hernández
1995
Women Writing Culture
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Writing: A Method of Inquiry
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94. Letter to Dwight Macdonald
C. Mills
2000
C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings
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95. On Intellectual Craftsmanship
C. Mills
1959
The Sociological Imagination
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96. Writing Ethnographic Narratives
Linda Brodkey
1987
Written Communication
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97. Self, Truth, and Form: Lessons from Georgia O'Keeffe
Susan Krieger
1991
Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art Form
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Poetics
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98. Tribal Fire and Scribal Ice
Ivan Brady
1993
Anthropology and Literature
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99. Experience and Poetics in Anthropological Writing
Edith Turner
1993
Anthropology and Literature
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100. That Rare Feeling: Re-Presenting Research Through Poetic Transcription
Corrine Glesne
1997
Qualitative Inquiry
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101. Poetry and Ethnography: A Dialogical Approach
Dennis Tedlock
1999
Anthropology and Humanism
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Qualitative Program Evaluation
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102. Qualitative Program Evaluation: Practice and Promise
Jennifer Greene
1994
Handbook of Qualitative Research
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103. Evaluation Research and the Practice of Social Services: A Case for Qualitative Methodology
Donileen Loseke
1989
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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Policy Analysis
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104. On the Application of Qualitative Research to the Policy Process: An Emergent Linkage
Ray Rist
1983
Viewpoints document from the U.S. General Accounting Office
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105. Policy as Communication and the Naturalistic Study of the Use of Policy Research
Steven Maynard-Moody
1989
Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization
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The Future: Tensions and Transformations
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106. Concept Mapping as a Feminist Research Method: Examining the Community Response to Rape
Rebecca Campbell | Deborah Salem
1999
Psychology of Women Quarterly
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107. Return to Sumatra: 1957, 1997
Edward Bruner
1999
American Ethnologist
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108. Histories and Horoscopes: The Ethnographer as Fortune-Teller
Mary Hamilton
1998
Anthropology and Education
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109. Comment on “Histories and Horoscopes: The Ethnographer as Fortune-Teller”
Wendy Luttrell
1998
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
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Rhonda Jeffries
1999
‘I Yam What I Am’: Examining Qualitative Research Through the Ethnographic Self, the Literary ‘Other’ and the Academy
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111. Advantages and Challenges of Using Inclusive Evaluation Approaches in Evaluation Practice
Katherine Ryan | Jennifer Greene | Yvonna Lincoln | Sandra Mathison | Donna Mertens
1998
American Journal of Evaluation
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112. The Anthro in Cali
Miles Richardson
1999
Qualitative Inquiry
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113. Two Poems
Ivan Brady
1999
Qualitative Inquiry
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