In defense of the sensual: Meaning construction in ethnography and poetics

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 622-644

  Brady, Ivan ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Poetry; Qualitative research; Semiotics; Sensuous scholarship

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844362836     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800404265719     Document Type: Article

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