Shane, The Lone Ethnography Summary

Shane, The Lone Ethnographer is an introduction to ethnography. In just a few short lines, the author has told us about the genre, setting, and main character of this novel. The author walks the reader through the process of doing ethnographic research. This book is basically a collection of comics explaing what a ethnographer does step by step.The author of the book is playing a cartoon character name Shane who is about to graduate from college. Her last assignment in class has to do with a research project about Ethnography and how she learns how to read, sort, code, write, and assess the analysis of a qualitative study in the traditions of ethnography. In the book, Shane, The Lone Ethnographer, on page 105 it talks about the A-Zs of the field’s terminology. Since I have never studied nor conducted an official ethnographic research project and have never taken an anthropology course until now of course, this was a good explanation to the history of ethnographic studies. Throughout the chapters, Shane receives helpful advice from experienced researchers who explain their analytic practices in detail. In chapter 8, it talks about the final step into writing her research project. It talks about her brainstorming by mapping out her
For one, instead of a regular college textbook, we get to read fun and exciting comics and still grasp the information. When i finished reading this book, i was happy that we didnt have to do one of these research projects because i dont think i go through with it. Even though their was alot of useful information, it was too much information. I got bored halfway through the book wanting it to be over because my attention span was done. I thought i was going to enjoy this but instead i rather read an regular textbook. I feel like i would of understand it more. Some chapters, i couldn't understand what they were saying cause the handwriting was