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Foundations of ethnography and interviewing

Oswald Werner, Gordon M. Schoepfle, Julie Ahern

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PART ONE: TOWARD A THEORY OF ETHNOGRAPHY Epistemological Concerns Basic Assumptions Selected Issues PART TWO: STARTING FIELDWORK Personal Equation of the Ethnographer Research Plan Field Relations and Their Maintenance Observation PART THREE: INTERVIEW Natural History of the Interview Interview as Conversation Ethnographic Interview Questionnaires Translation Technology of Interviewing

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Key concepts: Interview, Ethnography, Conversation, Sociology, Field (mathematics), Natural (archaeology), Psychology, Epistemology