
By Norman K. Denzin
As the world's tradition has turn into either postmodern and multinational, so too needs to ethnography. during this quantity, Norman ok Denzin examines the adjustments and sounds a choice to rework ethnographic writing in a fashion befitting a brand new age. the writer ponders the clients, difficulties, and types of ethnographic interpretive writing within the twenty-first century. He argues cogently and persuasively that postmodern ethnography is the ethical discourse of the modern international, and that ethnographers can and may discover new different types of experimental texts, performance-based texts, literary journalism and narratives of the self to shape a brand new ethics of inquiry.
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