Writing Critical Ethnography: Dialogue, Multivoicedness, and Carnival in Cultural Texts

Writing Critical Ethnography: Dialogue, Multivoicedness, and Carnival in Cultural Texts

Major theoretical elements from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin are used to develop a dialectical and transformative reading of culture. The literary devices of time and space, characterization, ideology, and ambivalence will allow critical ethnographers to portray the terrain of everyday life. (MT)

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Published in:Educational Theory Vol. 38; no. 1; p. 95
Main Authors: Quantz, Richard A, O'Connor, Terence W
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 1988
Subjects:
Cultural Pluralism
Ethnography
Literary Devices
Mikhail Bakhtin
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Summary:Major theoretical elements from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin are used to develop a dialectical and transformative reading of culture. The literary devices of time and space, characterization, ideology, and ambivalence will allow critical ethnographers to portray the terrain of everyday life. (MT)