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Title: Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by John Van Maanen ISBN: 0-226-84962-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect Companion To Goodall's The New Ethnography
Comment: Van Maanen's Tales is an excellent and succinct primer on the various ways we write ethnographic research. Giving a rich history of the 'armchair ethnographer' of the early 20th century, he procedds to show how our conceptualizations of this great practice has evolved.

This is a great book to determine not necessarily what kind of ethnography you want to write, but is a great exploration on how ethnography can write you. Are you a modern classisist ethnographer? Are you a interpretive ethnographer? Are you a critical ethnographer? Reading this book opened my eyes to the different techniques and questions we ethnographers can ask. Better yet, by delving into the various questions and ideas posed, I found where my ethnographic 'being' is.

I rate this with the highest rating possible.

Rating: 5
Summary: Writing Culture/Writing Ethnography
Comment: I utilized Van Maanen's short, but essential text on writing ethnography throughout my dissertation ethnography research (now a book: Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000). Unlike most "how to" texts on Ethnography, Tales of the Field focuses on writing as methodology. Van Maanen's writing is clear and concise. The reader is given several writing styles in ethnography, with ample examples from the author's, and other's, ethnographic writings. A great little book for fieldworkers, novice and veteran, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in research methods courses.

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