A01=Harry F. Wolcott
Anthropology & Archaeology
Author_Harry F. Wolcott
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Qualitative Research
Research Design
Skills & Methods in Education
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- ISBN 9780803952812
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 1994
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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After the glamour of working in the field is over, you now face the daunting challenge of transforming your field notes and interview tapes into a completed study. But where do you start? In Transforming Qualitative Data, Harry F. Wolcott guides you through the process of completing your research study. Beginning with an introductory chapter that presents his views on ethnography, he explores the transformation process by breaking it down into three related activities: description, analysis, and interpretation. To illustrate each point, he critically examines his own work, using nine of his previous studies as illustrations. Then he shows you how to learn—and to teach—qualitative research by applying the three principles outlined in the volume.
Written with the usual wit and brilliance shown in Wolcott′s work, Transforming Qualitative Data is a major statement on doing research by one of the master ethnographers of our time.
Written with the usual wit and brilliance shown in Wolcott′s work, Transforming Qualitative Data is a major statement on doing research by one of the master ethnographers of our time.
Harry F. Wolcott (Ph.D. Stanford) taught at the University of Oregon, serving on both the faculties of education and anthropology. He authored several ethnographic texts that included his experiences among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia and with the African Beer Gardens of Bulawayo, Rhodesia, as well on ethnographic method and on writing itself, with a focus on qualitative research. His publications included: Transforming Qualitative Data (SAGE 1994); Art of Fieldwork (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2005); Ethnography: A Way of Seeing (2nd ed., Altamira Press 2008); Writing Up Qualitative Research (3rd ed., SAGE 2009); Sneaky Kid and Its Aftermath: Ethics and Intimacy in Fieldwork (Altamira 2002), and Ethnography Lessons: A Primer (Left Coast Press, 2010).
