PART ONE ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURE 1 (36)
Ethnography and Culture 3 (10)
Culture 5 (5)
Making Culture Inferences 10 (3)
Ethnography for What? 13 (13)
Understanding the Human Species 13 (3)
Ethnography in the Service of Humankind 16 (4)
Ethical Principles 20 (6)
The Ethnographic Research Cycle 26 (11)
Selecting an Ethnographic Project 28 (3)
Asking Ethnographic Questions 31 (2)
Collecting Ethnographic Data 33 (1)
Making an Ethnographic Record 33 (1)
Analyzing Ethnographic Data 33 (1)
Writing an Ethnography 34 (3)
PART TWO THE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SEQUENCE 37 (138)
Locating a Social Situation 39 (14)
Social Situations 39 (6)
Selection Criteria 45 (8)
Doing Participant Observation 53 (10)
Ordinary Participant versus Participant 53 (5)
Observer
Types of Participation 58 (5)
Making an Ethnographic Record 63 (10)
The Ethnographic Record and Language Use 63 (6)
Kinds of Fieldnotes 69 (4)
Making Descriptive Observations 73 (12)
The Ethnographic inquiry Unit 73 (3)
Kinds of Descriptive Observations 76 (4)
Descriptive Question Matrix 80 (5)
Making a Domain Analysis 85 (15)
Ethnographic Analysis 85 (3)
Cultural Domains 88 (3)
Steps in Making a Domain Analysis 91 (9)
Making Focused Observations 100(12)
Selecting an Ethnographic Focus 101(6)
Focused Observations 107(5)
Making a Taxonomic Analysis 112(10)
Taxonomy 112(4)
Taxonomic Analysis 116(6)
Making Selected Observations 122(8)
Interviews and Participant Observation 123(2)
Contrast Questions 125(3)
Selective Observations 128(2)
Making a Componential Analysis 130(10)
Componential Analysis 131(2)
Steps in Making a Componential Analysis 133(7)
Discovering Cultural Themes 140(15)
Cultural Themes 140(4)
Strategies for Making a Theme Analysis 144(11)
Taking a Cultural Inventory 155(5)
Make a List of Cultural Domains 156(1)
Make a List of Analyzed Domains 156(1)
Collect Sketch Maps 157(1)
Make a List of Themes 157(1)
Inventory Examples 157(1)
Identify Organizing Domains 158(1)
Make an Index or Table of Contents 158(1)
Inventory Miscellaneous Data 158(1)
Additional Research Possibilities 159(1)
Step Twelve Writing an Ethnography 160(15)
The Translation Process 161(7)
Steps in Writing an Ethnography 168(7)
Appendix A The Developmental Research Sequence 175(5)
Method
Appendix B Developmental Research Sequence 180(3)
Writing Tasks
Bibliography 183(6)
Index 189