Books, Papers, and Websites about Ethnographic Research
Learn more about doing ethnographic research from the following books in the UIUC collection. Items marked with **asterisks** are particularly good starting points and provide a basic introduction to ethnographic practice. Follow the links to get location and availability information for each item.
- Atkinson, Paul. Understanding Ethnographic Texts (Newbury Park: Sage, 1992).
- **Atkinson, Paul, et al., Eds. Handbook of Ethnography (London: Sage, 2001).
- Brettell, Caroline B., Ed. When They Read What We Write: the Politics of Ethnography. (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1993).
- Clifford, James and George E. Marcus, Eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
- Comaroff, John & Jean. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992).
- Emerson, Robert M. Ed. Contemporary Field Research: A Collection of Reading. (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1988).
- Fardo, Richard, Ed. Localizing Strategies: Regional Traditions of Ethnographic Writing. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990).
- **Fetterman, David M. Ethnography: Step by Step (Newbury Park: Sage, 1989).
- Garson, G. David. Ethnographic research.
- Fowler, Don D. and Donald L. Hardesty. Others Knowing Others: Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).
- Geertz, Clifford. Works and Lives: the Anthropologist as Author. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
- Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson, Eds. Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (Berkeley: U. of CA Press, 1997).
- **Jackson, Bruce. Fieldwork (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).
- Jacobson, David. Reading Ethnography (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991).
- Massey, Alexander. "The way we do things around here": the culture of ethnography.
- **Messerschmidt, Donald A., Ed. Anthropologists at Home in North America: Methods and Issues in the Study of One's Own Society. (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
- Moffatt, Michael. "Ethnographic Writing about American Culture." Annual Review of Anthropology 1992 21: 205-229.
- **Sanjek, Roger, Ed. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1990).
- **Van Maanen, John. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
