Analytic ethnography: Features, Failings, and Futures

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 30-67

  Lofland, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84970313150     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089124195024001002     Document Type: Article

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