The construction process of ethnographic notes suffers from a lack of attention, in particular in relation to the conceptualisation of notes as an object in itself. The risk is the one of leaving one of the key aspects of ethnographic research in the shade and to think of the writing notes process as a non-problematic process of "mere description" of the researcher's presence on the field. The relevance of ethnographic notes is dictated by their being the empirical basis of the observational tool. Studying the notes is important not only because they reveal the reality of the field, but much more because they allow us to confront the construction complexity of the empirical basis of ethnographic research and, ultimately, because they constitue its base of plausibility.
Book Title
Cosa sono questi «appunti alla buona dall’aria innocente»?
Book Subtitle
La costruzione delle note etnografiche
Authors
Katia Cigliuti
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
202
Publication Year
2014
Copyright Information
© 2014 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-706-7
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-705-0
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-706-7
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-404-3
Series Title
Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»
Series ISSN
2705-0289
Series E-ISSN
2705-0297