Teaching Ethnographic Writing: A Review Essay

This essay selectively reviews the ethnographic criticism literature and considers its potential applications for the teaching of ethnographic writing. Three major areas are discussed: textual organization, ranging from "holistic" to experimental ethnographies; voice, which includes questions of first person and the potential pitfalls of teaching "polyphony"; and the politics of metaphor, or teaching political awareness of choices of language and literary forms. ETHNOGRAPHY, WRITING, CRITICISM, TEACHING, EDUCATION

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