Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an opportunity to cultivate experience with included exercises. • Presents ethnography as creative and artful rather than analytical or technical • Emphasises the collaborative nature of ethnography • Structured exercises cultivate practical experience • Includes a discussion on indexing and interpreting project materials • Provides guidance on interview questions and selecting appropriate field equipment
But culture is an enigma now, a problematic concept for many scholars. It was once widely accepted that cultural systems were separated and bounded; today, we know that has never been the case. (8)
Issues of power and voice, of who speaks, and of who speaks for whom, call for collaborative approaches that ask us to write with rather than about others and to be aware of our selves in the world. (130)