Fiction and social research : by ice or fire / Anna Banks, Stephen P. Banks, editors.

Other author Banks, Anna.
Other author Banks, Stephen P.
Format Book
Publication InfoWalnut Creek CA : AltaMira Press, ©1998.
Description272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Methodology.
Literature and society.
Fiction--Social aspects.

SeriesEthnographic alternatives ; vol. 4
Ethnographic alternatives book series ; vol. 4. ^A381171
Contents The struggle over facts and fictions / Stephen Banks and Anna Banks -- Flirtations: conversation analysis from fiction and life / Robert Hopper -- Stories that tell it like it is? fiction techniques and prize-winning journalism / Sandra L. Haarsager -- (Re)presenting voices in dramatically scripted research / Michelle Miller -- Dead or alive, you're going to Teixido: the teller and the tale / Eugene Valentine and Kristin Bervig Valentine -- Lessons: what the hell are we teaching the next generation anyway? / Robert L. Krizek -- Portrait of an anorexic life / Christine Elizabeth Kiesinger -- Silent movies: scenes from a life / Leigh Berger -- Dancing with the chameleon / Sandra Coyle -- Some people would say I tell lies / Anna Banks -- On the pleasures of ruined pictures / Shawn Michelle Smith -- From anxiety to possibility: poems 1987-1997 / Eric M. Eisenberg -- Postmodern sensibilities and ethnographic possibilities / Simon Gottschalk -- The dishcloth of Minerva: absence, presence, and metatheory in the every practice of research / Stephen Linstead -- The Tioga tapes / Stephen P. Banks.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 98019693
ISBN0761990348 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0761990356 (pbk. : acid-free paper)