A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies
Denielle Elliott (editor), Dara Culhane (editor), Alexandrine Boudreault-Founier, Cristina Moretti, Magda Kazubowksi-HoustonConceptualizing ethnography as a critical process of inquiry that is at once empirical & theoretical, the authors organize their thoughts around five key methodologies: sensing, walking, writing, performing, & recording. They also integrate more traditional methods like participant observation, interviewing, & documentary research. Each chapter includes practical exercises, a list of further resources, & links to online materials that can help encourage a more imaginative & creative methodology.
Contents:
Imagining: An Introduction by Dara Culhane
Writing by Denielle Elliott
Sensing by Dara Culhane
Recording & Editing by Alexandrine Boudreault-Founier
Walking by Cristina Moretti
Performing by Magda Kazubowksi-Houston
Dara Culhane received her Ph.D. in 1994 & teaches anthropology at Simon Fraser University. From 1992 to 1994, she was Deputy Director of Social & Cultural Research for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Her first book, An Error in Judgement, probes the controversial 1979 death of a First Nations child who died of an undiagnosed ruptured appendix in Alert Bay, B.C. She continued her work with The Pleasure of the Crown, which offers an in-depth analysis of Aboriginal title litigation in British Columbia & examines the cultural values & biases of the courts from an anthropologist’s point of view. Culhane’s research has also appeared in BC Studies, Native Studies Review & The Journal of Human Justice.