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Doing Sensory Ethnography

Second Edition


March 2015 | 232 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice.

Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research Sarah Pink uses real world examples to bring this innovative area of study to life. She encourages us to challenge, revise and rethink core components of ethnography including interviews, participant observation and doing research in a digital world. The book provides an important framework for thinking about sensory ethnography stressing the numerous ways that smell, taste, touch and vision can be interconnected and interrelated within research. Bursting with practical advice on how to effectively conduct and share sensory ethnography this is an important, original book, relevant to all branches of social sciences and humanities.


 
Introduction: About Doing Sensory Ethnography
 
PART I: Rethinking Ethnography Through The Senses
 
Chapter 1. Situating Sensory Ethnography: from academia to intervention
 
Chapter 2. Principles For Sensory Ethnography: perception, place, knowing, memory and imagination
 
Chapter 3. Preparing For Sensory Research: practical and orientation issues
 
PART II: Sensory Ethnography In Practice
 
Chapter 4. The Sensoriality Of The Interview: rethinking personal encounters through the senses
 
Chapter 5. Sensory Research Through Participation: from observation to intervention
 
Chapter 6. Mediated Sensory Ethnography: doing and recording sensory ethnography in a digital world
 
PART III: Interpreting And Representing Sensory Knowing
 
Chapter 7. Interpreting Multisensory Research : organising, analysing and meaning making
 
Chapter 8. Representing Sensory Ethnography: communicating, arguing and the non-representational
 
Afterword: Imagining Sensory Futures: ethnography, design and future studies

Doing Sensory Ethnography is an essential, readable and above all fascinating volume that is required reading across disciplines and for anyone interested in or working on the senses. 

Andrew Irving
Director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester

Doing Sensory Ethnography situates the field in its broad multidisciplinary and contemporary context, but also provides a hands-on approach to  ethnographic methods as well as the writing up of results. It guides the reader through the field in a reflexive and highly stimulating way.

Orvar Löfgren
Professor of European Ethnology, University of Lund

This is a very clear, thought-provoking and inviting book. Extremely useful for researchers and students.

Dr Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez
Social Science, Universidad Europea de Madrid
January 29, 2024

A good compliment to Pink's other tites in ethnography and expanding the field from the visual to the multi-sensory which foregrounds how we capture and interpret our embodied experience of the world.

Dr Tracy Piper-Wright
Department of Art & Design, Chester University
October 25, 2019

Great resource for research students across disciplines

Ms Louise O'Boyle
School of Art and Design, Ulster University
August 6, 2016

up-to-date, and easily accessible content that is elaborated well through the authors own rich experiences and cases
studies.

Mr John Morrison
School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University
May 5, 2016

Really important read for students and staff alike

Ms Louise O'Boyle
School of Art and Design, Ulster University
April 20, 2016

Useful, accessible, of interest to researchers in a variety of disciplines

Mrs Laura Iraine Middleton-Green
Divison of Nursing Studies, Bradford University
February 24, 2016

Too specific for a introductory module. Very interesting for advanced researchers

Ms Lucia Ruggerone
School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University
October 21, 2015

A useful guide to a fairly specific field: would supplement other books for those interested in an ethnographic project

Ms Karen Hillison
Department of Social Work, Hull University
June 1, 2015

Sample Materials & Chapters

Doing Sensory Ethnography: Chapter Two


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