The lost ethnographies : methodological insights from projects that never were

• Other Authors: Smith, Robin James (Editor), Delamont, Sara, 1947- (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Studies in qualitative methodology ; v. 17.
• Subjects: Ethnomethodology.; Ethnology.; Sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787147737; 9781787439313
• ISSN: 1042-3192 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S1042-3192201917
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages).

The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took such unexpected directions that i...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Editorial introduction
• Chapter 1: Periwigs in Prauge: the opera project we never did
• Chapter 2: Remarks from a lost engagement with the engaging ordinariness of parkour
• Chapter 3: Losing bigfoot
• Chapter 4: A sociological case of stand-up comedy: censorship, offensiveness and opportunism
• Chapter 5: Researching underwater: a submerged study
• Chapter 6: Flat claps and dengue fever: a story of ethnographies lost and found in India
• Chapter 7: Losing the students in a school ethnography: anthropology and the puzzle of holism
• Chapter 8: What happens when you take your eye off the ball? Reflecting on a lost study' of boys' football, uneven playing fields and the longitudinal promise of Esprit de Corps
• Chapter 9: Exorcising an ethnography in limbo
• Chapter 10: Finding the lost thing under the binds of a neglected thesis cover
• Chapter 11: The edges and the end: on stopping an ethnographic project, on losing the way
• Index.