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An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork

An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork uniquely provides a complete picture of qualitative methods by explaining both the why to and the how to, offering both the theory and practical recipes for how to do qualitative research. Qualitative methods have become so diverse that it is easy to feel bewildered by their variety and overwhelmed by the increasingly detailed body of knowledge. In response, this book invites students to try their hand at qualitative fieldwork, using straightforward language and examples that prove anyone can succeed in collecting valuable qualitative data. This is an ideal text for any course on qualitative research.

Jason Orne has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His ethnography, Boystown, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press. It traces the racial and sexual consequences of late-stage gentrification in a gay neighborhood. His academic work has been featured in the journals Sexualities and The Sociological Quarterly. His creative nonfiction work is in a variety of venues, from the magazine The Morning News to the anthology Off the Rocks.

Michael M. Bell is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology and Director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mike is also an ethnographer, agroecologist, and social theorist. He is an author or editor of eight other books, including two award-winning ethnographies. In 1994 he published Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village (University of Chicago Press, 1994), which was co-winner of the 1995 Best Book Award of the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. Ten years later he finished his second ethnography, Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (Penn State University Press, 2004), which won an Outstanding Academic Title Award from the American Library Association. He is currently conducting participatory fieldwork among the amaQwathi people of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

Mike has a musical second life as a composer and performer. His compositions include pieces for solo piano, symphony orchestra, and various chamber ensembles, as well as numerous class-grass worksa hybrid of bluegrass and classical traditions. He frequently performs on mandolin and banjo with the Madison-based class-grass ensemble Graminy (www.graminy.net).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Orne, Jason.

An invitation to qualitative fieldwork : a multilogical approach / by Jason Orne &
Michael M. Bell.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Social sciencesFieldwork. 2. Social sciencesResearchMethodology.

I. Bell, Michael M. II. Title.
H62.O745 2015
001.433dc23
2014032657

ISBN: 978-0-415-53661-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-53662-2 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-79416-7 (ebk)

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Contents in Brief

Contents in Detail

What is there left to say about qualitative methods? Once seen as the realm of outlaws and bohemians, qualitative research is now an accepted and prominent feature of the academic landscape. Indeed, our own academic library lists hundreds of books about qualitative methodology. Do we really need another one?

We believe, yes, we really do. There is more to say, much more, precisely because so many scholars are now talking about qualitative research. The endeavor is growing rapidly and lushly, with a wide range of new cultivars, polymorphs, and offshoots. Indeed, qualitative methods have become so diverse that it is easy to feel bewildered by its variety and overwhelmed by its increasingly detailed body of knowledge. Even experienced qualitative fieldworkers sometimes feel left behind and confused, kind of like a parent of a teenager, befuddled and maybe even alarmed by the latest cultural trends.

Thats why we titled this book An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork . We mean it to be a welcome to students, novices, and rookies to try their hand at qualitative fieldwork. And we mean it to be a re-invitation for those looking for a refresher. We seek to provide a clear language for thinking about fieldwork, along with practical tips for making it happen. As we describe in , we think of this invitation as a kind of cooking booka work that explains both the why to and how to of qualitative cooking, both the theory of qualitative research and practical recipes for how to do it. Such an approach we hope will be inviting to those feeling a bit scared by all the stuff that we have now in the cabinets and drawers of the qualitative kitchen.

Fieldwork sometimes has a mystique, as though it takes a special kind of person, someone more adventurous or outgoing than many of us. It really only takes a special set of skills and enough knowledge of the logics those skills embody to be able to adapt them to the unique circumstances of every fieldwork project. By blending practical advice and exercises with more philosophical considerations, our book aims to teach the skills and knowledge needed to cook up a fieldwork project from inception to fruition.

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