A Song for My Supper: More Tales of the Field
This essay tries to be true to a podium talk I presented at a conference in March, 2008. But, of necessity, certain consolidation liberties are taken. Beginning with a brief and broad treatment of ethnography as a paired written representation of and lengthy personal experience in a particular socia...
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| description | This essay tries to be true to a podium talk I presented at a conference in March, 2008. But, of necessity, certain consolidation liberties are taken. Beginning with a brief and broad treatment of ethnography as a paired written representation of and lengthy personal experience in a particular social world, I move to consider why the former, the text, has been so infrequently examined in lieu of the latter, the so-called method. I then move to ethnographic texts themselves and look at what I take to be some broad changes the seem apparent — particularly within the organizational ethnography domain — over the past 20 or so years. Alongside these changes comes the emergence of several distinct genres treated only lightly (or not at all) in Tales of the Field. I end by considering what seems to have stayed the course in ethnography and why. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/667192022-09-30T19:15:13Z A Song for My Supper: More Tales of the Field Van Maanen, John Sloan School of Management Van Maanen, John Van Maanen, John This essay tries to be true to a podium talk I presented at a conference in March, 2008. But, of necessity, certain consolidation liberties are taken. Beginning with a brief and broad treatment of ethnography as a paired written representation of and lengthy personal experience in a particular social world, I move to consider why the former, the text, has been so infrequently examined in lieu of the latter, the so-called method. I then move to ethnographic texts themselves and look at what I take to be some broad changes the seem apparent — particularly within the organizational ethnography domain — over the past 20 or so years. Alongside these changes comes the emergence of several distinct genres treated only lightly (or not at all) in Tales of the Field. I end by considering what seems to have stayed the course in ethnography and why. 2011-11-01T19:36:11Z 2011-11-01T19:36:11Z 2010-04 2009-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1094-4281 1552-7425 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66719 Van Maanen, J. “A Song for My Supper: More Tales of the Field.” Organizational Research Methods 13 (2009): 240-255. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0006-873X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1094428109343968 Organizational Research Methods Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Sage Publications Van Maanen |
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