Fieldnotes
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Fieldnotes refer to various notes recorded by social scientists during or after their observation of a specific phenomena they are studying.
Emerson (1995) defines fieldnotes in ethnography (a term referring generally to descriptive writing in anthropology, and also to subfield of sociology) as 'accounts describing experiences and observations the researcher has made while participating in an intense and involved manner'. A key source, containing case materials about fieldnote writing -- for example, about the relationship between fieldnotes and memory, and about the interconnections among field research process, fieldnotes and post-fieldwork ethnographic work -- is the 1990 collection edited by Roger Sanjek, Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology.
[edit] External links
- Fieldnotes: breaking the silence
- Guide to Anthropological Fieldnotes and Manuscripts in Archival Repositories
[edit] Example fieldnotes
- a photo-journal of some of my recent fieldwork in Basque dance
- FieldNotes: Notes on the Anthropology of British Columbia
[edit] Further reading
- Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, University Of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 0-226-20681-5
- Roger Sanjek, Fieldnotes: The Making of Anthropology, Cornell University Press, 1990.
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