Close But Not Too Close: Friendship as Method(ology) in Ethnographic Research Encounters

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 283-305

  Owton, Helen ^a   Allen Collinson, Jacquelyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asthma; confessional tales; emotion work; ethnography; friendship as method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899722740     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241613495410     Document Type: Article

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