Understanding Contexts: Methods and Analysis in Ethnographic Research on Drugs

Addiction Research Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 285-298

  Northcote, Jeremy ^a   Moore, David ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

'ethnography,' set of research methods, participant observation, observation; 'referral' describing process; Designing ethnographic research; Explaining 'irrational' or risky drug related practices; Post war ethnographies of drug use social explanations of drug use and addiction; Reflexivity, important component of ethnographic work; Specialist methods; Tracing history of ethnographic drug research; Understanding contexts methods and analysis in ethnographic research on drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958860282     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318852.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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