On Ethnographic Validity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. I. Living with Fieldnotes
5. "I Am a Fieldnote": Fieldnotes as a Symbol of Professional Identity 1
6. Fire, Loss, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice 34
7. II. Unpacking ,,Fieldnotes"
8. Notes on (Field)notes 47
9. Pretexts for Ethnography: On Reading Fieldnotes 71
10. A Vocabulary for Fieldnotes 92
11. III. Fieldnote Practice
12. Thirty Years of Fieldnotes: Changing Relationships to the Text 139
13. Quality into Quantity: On the Measurement Potential of Ethnographic Fieldnotes 161
14. The Secret Life of Fieldnotes 187
15. IV. Fieldnotes in Circulation
16. Fieldnotes: Research in Past Occurrences 273
17. Adventures with Fieldnotes 290
18. Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers' Fieldnotes 303
19. Fieldnotes and Others 324
20. V. From Fieldnotes to Ethnography
21. Chinanotes: Engendering Anthropology 343
22. Hearing Voices, Joining the Chorus: Appropriating Someone Else's Fieldnotes 356
23. Fieldnotes, Filed Notes, and the Conferring of Note 371
24. On Ethnographic Validity 385
25. Index 419