Claire St John Eve

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The task [of ethnographers] is to document the culture, the perspectives and practices of the people in these settings. The aim is to ‘get inside’ the way each group of people sees the world”

(Hammersley, 1992)

→ July 7, 2015

I speak here of entering into a world, rather than merely of observing

it at length because much of the understanding that provides the context

for such holistic meaning is not the sort that can be simply stated

in propositions and reported by observers.

(Cox, 1986; p. 72)

→ April 17, 2015