Awards National Book Critics Circle Award Description The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories--this is magic, that is technology--has long since been exploded.
But the examination of it.
That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both.
What it is instead, however, is less clear.
Awards National Book Critics Circle Award Description The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories--this is magic, that is technology--has long since been exploded