Fieldnotes
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Fieldnotes refer to various notes recorded by social scientists during or after their observation of a specific pheomena he is studying.
Emerson (1995) defines fieldnotes in ethnography (a subfield of sociology) as 'accounts describing experiences and observations the researcher has made while participating in an intense and involved manner'.
External links
Example fieldnotes
- [a photo-journal of some of my recent fieldwork in Basque dance]
- [FieldNotes: Notes on the Anthropology of British Columbia]
Further reading
- Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, University Of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 0226206815
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