Interpretive Ethnography Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century [Paperback]

As the world's culture has become both postmodern and multinational, so too must ethnography. In this volume, Norman K Denzin examines the changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. The author ponders the prospects, problems, and forms of ethnographic interpretive writing in the twenty-first century. He argues cogently and persuasively that postmodern ethnography is the moral discourse of the contemporary world, and that ethnographers can and should explore new types of experimental texts, performance-based texts, literary journalism and narratives of the self to form a new ethics of inquiry.

As the world's culture has become both postmodern and multinational, so too must ethnography. In this volume, Norman K Denzin examines the changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. The author ponders the prospects, problems, and forms of ethnographic interpretive writing in the twenty-first century. He argues cogently and persuasively that postmodern ethnography is the moral discourse of the contemporary world, and that ethnographers can and should explore new types of experimental texts, performance-based texts, literary journalism and narratives of the self to form a new ethics of inquiry.

PART ONE: READING THE CRISIS
Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us
Visual Truth and the Ethnographic Project
PART TWO: EXPERIENTIAL TEXTS
The Standpoint Epistemologies
Performance Texts
The New Journalism
The Private Eye
Ethnographic Poetics and Narratives of the Self
PART THREE: WHOSE TRUTH?
Reading Narrative
The Sixth Moment