Inside Stories: Qualitative Research Reflections

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction ix
• 1: Gold Mining History in Search of Personal Understanding 1
• REFERENCES 7
• 2: Precipitating Myself Into Just Manageable Difficulfies: Reflections on Constructing an Intellectual Biography of Nicholas Hobbs 9
• REFERENCES 21
• 3: Traveling Light: A Student's Guide to Packing for Qualitative Research 23
• 4: The Role of the Applied Anthropologist: Between Schools and the Navajo Nation 35
• 5: Activist or Ethnographer? Researchers, Teachers, and Voice in Ethnographies That Critique 49
• REFERENCES 57
• 6: Personal Reflections on the Process: The Role of the Researcher and Transformative Research 59
• 7: "Studying Up" in Educational Anthropology1 67
• REFERENCES 78
• 8: Revisiting Juanita's Beauty Salon: An Ethnographic Study of an African- American Beauty Shop 79
• 9: Mucking Around in the Mud: Doing Ethnography With Yup'ik Eskimo Girls 87
• REFERENCES 95
• 10: Tracing Literacy Across Three Generations . . . Trying Not to Lose the Voices 97
• REFERENCES 109
• 11: You Never Know When You Might Want To Be a Redhead in Belize 111
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 124
• 12: Interviewing the Incarcerated: Personal Notes on Ethical and Methodological Issues 127
• REFERENCES 137
• 13: How Close Is Close Enough?: Reflections on the Experience of Doing Phenomenology 139
• REFERENCES 149
• 14: Teacher-Researcher: A Long and Winding Road From the Public School to the University 151
• REFERENCES 159
• Reflections on Collaborative, and Not-so-Collaborative, Research in Early Childhood Settings 161
• 16: Who Is Taking Risks? Moving Toward Collaborative Research 173
• REFERENCES 182
• 17: Incomplete Stories 185
• REFERENCES 194
• 18: Synonyms and Sequences: The Development of an Intellectual Autobiography 197
• REFERENCES 207
• Author Index 211
• Subject Index 215

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