Download or read book Dialogues with Ethnography written by Jan Blommaert and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book persuasively argues the case that ethnography must be viewed as a full theoretical system, rather than just as a research method. Blommaert traces the influence of his reading of classic works about ethnography on his thinking, and discusses a range of authors who have influenced the development of a theoretical system of ethnography, or whose work might be productively used to develop it further. Authors examined include Hymes, Scollon, Kress, Bourdieu, Bakhtin and Lefebvre. This book will be required reading for students and scholars involved in ethnographic research, or those interested in the theory of ethnography.