'Getting out' in ethnography: A seldom-told story

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-26

  Iversen, Roberta Rehner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

'getting out'; Ethnography; Leaving the field; Postmodern perspectives; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449195719     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325008100423     Document Type: Article

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