The ethnographic turn: Fact, fashion, or fiction?

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 365-389

  Culyba, Rebecca J ^b   Heimer, Carol A ^a   Petty, Juleigh Coleman ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ethnography; Fieldwork; Methodology; Participant observation; Publication

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944493711     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:QUAS.0000049238.27735.79     Document Type: Review

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