Interpretive Ethnography

At we enter the 21st century we are witnessing tremendous changes in the worlds culture. As it has become both postmodern and multinational so too must ethnography. In Interpretive Ethnography Norman K. Denzin examines these changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. Denzin ponders the prospects problems and forms of ethnographic interpretive writing as we hurtle toward the 21st century. In this breakthrough volume he argues cogently and persuasively that postmodern ethnography is the moral discourse of the contemporary world and that ethnographers can and should explore new sorts of experiential texts--such as performance-based text literary journalism and narratives of the self--to form a new ethics of inquiry.This outstanding volume by one of the premier qualitative researchers will be essential for professionals and students in qualitative methods sociology anthropology communication cultural studies social theory education management and nursing.