Resonant Ethnography

Understanding the World through Writing
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-97746-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

This bookexplores what it means—and what it takes—to write ethnographic texts that resonate with both fieldwork and readers.It approaches writing as a form of embodied thinking and encourages conceptual openness and a willingness to experiment. Drawing on exemplary texts and the authors’ experiences as teachers and writers, it explores the importance of attentiveness, imagination, and ethical engagement. Grounded in anthropology and phenomenology, and inspired by literature, it weaves conceptual reflection with practical guidance and literary sensibility. Throughout the book, the authors show how ambiguity, affect, and imagination can foster understanding. Each chapter focuses on a key aspect of the writing process, exploring fundamentals such as time, voice, argument, and composition. More than just a guide to writing,  is an invitation to think, feel, and imagine through writing, and to appreciate what ethnography can be in the world today.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bundgaard, Helle

Dalsgård, Anne Line

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An ethnographic poetics.- Part I: ATTENTION, COMPOSITION, AND IMAGINATION.- 2. Attention.- 3. Composition.- 4. Imagination.- Part II: THE ART OF RESONANT WRITING.- 5.  Place,- 6. Person.- 7.  Voice.- 8. Time.- 9. On writing poems and stories.- Part III: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC CRAFT.- 10. The writing process.- 11. Ethnographic argumentation.- 12. Editing.- 13. Epilogue: Always a ‘more’.

Über Autor(innen)

Helle Bundgaard is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her books include the literary ethnography , which features a short story that received the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Writing Award (AAA).

Anne Line Dalsgård is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her books include the monograph .