Ethnographic Ways of Knowing

Lucinda Carspecken is a senior lecturer in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology at Indiana University.

Drawing on the works of ten scholars and public intellectuals ranging over 200 years, this book foregrounds ways of knowing that go beyond the cognitive.

Introduction: Ethics and Ancestors in Ethnography Part I: Ethnography as Public Work 1. The Traveler with the Ear Trumpet: Harriet Martineau as Methodological Pioneer 2. Jane Addams and the Coat: Research as Lateral Practice 3. Chart and Compass in W.E.B. Du Bois's Early Work Part II: Building Imaginative Bridges 4. "I was just crazy to get into the dance,": Zora Neale Hurston's Celebratory Research in Florida 5. The Dakota Way of Life and Waterlily: Ella Deloria's Gifts 6. M.N. Srinivas and the Inconvenient Detail 7. The Work of Recognition in Barbara Myerhoff's Number Our Days Part III: Fusions: Participatory Action Theory, Ethnographic History and Auto-ethnography 8. Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research: Looking for the Place Where Waters Meet 9. The Many and the One: Ronald Takaki's Revisioning of the United States 10. The Singing Man and the Suitor: Auto-ethnographic Ways of Knowing in Nawal El Saadawi's Memoirs