Dr Jan Lorenz
Bibliography for Ethnographic Encounters and Writing
Required readings
Malinowski, BronisĹaw. âIntroduction.â Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1922. 1-20. [PDF]
Geertz, Clifford. âChapter 1. Thick Description: Towards an Interpretative Theory of Culture.â The Interpretation of Cultures. 1973. London: Fontana, 1993. 3-30. [PDF]
Rosaldo, Renato. âIntroduction: Grief and a Headhunterâs Rage.â Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. 1989. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. 167-178. [PDF]
Kathleen Stewart. âCultural Poiesis: The Generativity of Emergent Things.â The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (Third Edition). Eds. Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. London: Sage, 2005, 1027-1042. [PDF]
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. âMedicine, Sickness, and Human Needs.â Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 167-214. [PDF]
Optional readings
Clifford, James. âOn Ethnographic Authority.â Representations 2 (Spring 1983): 118-146. [PDF]
Emerson, Robert M. âChapter 1: Fieldnotes in Ethnographic Research.â Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. [PDF]
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. âThe Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology.â Current Anthropology 36.3 (June 1995): 409-440. [PDF]
Wacquant, LoĂŻc. ââBusyâ Louie at the Golden Glove.â Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 235-256. [PDF]