Interpretive Ethnography : Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century

by Norman K. Denzin

• ISBN13: 9780803972995
• ISBN10: 0803972997
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-10
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

Modern Historiographyis the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical schools of the modern era. In a unique overview of modern historiography, the book includes surveys on the Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment; Romanticism; the voice of Science and the process of secularization within Western intellectual thought; the influence of, and broadening contact with, the New World; theAnnalesschool in France; and the effects of the repression and exile of the inter-war years and the Post-War 'moods.'Modern Historiographyprovides a clear and concise account of this modern period of historical writing.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xxiii
PART 1: Reading the Crisis
Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us	3	(28)
The Representational Crisis	4	(2)
The Legitimation Crisis	6	(1)
Responses to the Legitimation Crisis	7	(2)
Poststructural Forms of Legitimation	9	(5)
Into History	14	(5)
Reading History	19	(2)
James Joyce's Writing Project	21	(3)
The Lessons James Joyce Teaches Us	24	(1)
Into the Future	25	(6)
Visual Truth and the Ethnographic Project	31	(22)
Qualitative Research Text as a Cultural Form	32	(4)
The Text as a Parallax of Discourses	36	(4)
The Many Sounds (and Meanings) of Voice	40	(3)
On Hearing (and Seeing) the Voices in Ethnographic Research	43	(2)
Back to the Beginning	45	(8)
PART 2: Experiential Texts
Standpoint Epistemologies	53	(37)
Logic of the Standpoint Text	55	(9)
Patricia Hill Collins: An Afrocentric, Feminist Epistemology	64	(8)
Trinh T. Minh-Ha: Framer Framed	72	(3)
Cinema Meets Ethnography: Ethnography in the Sixth Moment	75	(7)
Gloria Anzaldua: The Borderlands of the Textual Self	82	(3)
Standpoints and Traveling Texts	85	(5)
Performance Texts	90	(36)
Interpretive Assumptions	92	(3)
Performance Text Vocabulary	95	(7)
Genealogy of the Performance Text	102	(13)
Mystory Text and Its Performance	115	(5)
Ethics for a Performative Cultural Studies	120	(3)
Conclusions	123	(3)
The New Journalism	126	(37)
From Fact to Fiction	128	(3)
Nonfiction Texts and the New Journalists	131	(8)
Reading the New Writing	139	(3)
The Critics	142	(2)
The Janet Cooke and Related Stories	144	(12)
What to Make of It All	156	(7)
The Private Eye	163	(36)
From Crime to News to Moral Fiction	168	(1)
The Classic, Traditional Model	169	(5)
James Lee Burke	174	(8)
John Straley	182	(10)
Denouement	192	(7)
Ethnographic Poetics and Narratives of the Self	199	(32)
Reading the New Writing	201	(2)
History	203	(4)
Interpretive Assumptions	207	(9)
Criticisms	216	(1)
Reflexive Critique	217	(7)
Reflexive, Messy Text	224	(7)
PART 3: Whose Truth?
Reading Narrative	231	(19)
Two Approaches to Narrative	233	(1)
Interpretive Assumptions: The Reader in the Text	234	(7)
Generic Model of Narrative Analysis	241	(2)
Reading the Standard Narrative Model	243	(3)
The Storied, Performance Approach to Narrative	246	(4)
The Sixth Moment	250	(40)
Letting the Old Do the Work of the New	252	(13)
Whose Truth?	265	(3)
Positivism's Ethical Mandates	268	(6)
Feminist, Communitarian Ethical Model	274	(5)
Merging Ethnography With Journalism	279	(1)
Writing Culture in the Sixth Moment	280	(4)
In the End	284	(6)
References	290	(25)
Index	315	(10)
About the Author	325