Smith2020a
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Smith2020a |
| Author(s) | Robin Smith |
| Title | Seeing the trouble: A mountain rescue training scenario in its circumstantial and situated detail in three frames |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Ethnographic Studies |
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| Number | 17 |
| Pages | 41-59 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.5281/zenodo.4050536 |
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Abstract
This article concerns the possibility and adequacy of ethnographic description in relation to the circumstantial ‘order-productive’ detail of a given scene (MacBeth, 2012). The scene is an incident of technical trouble that emerges in the course of a mountain rescue training scenario. I take this case as instructive as to the relationship between ‘live’ observations and their detail, and that made available in photographic and video materials. I show how the trouble, in its occasioned detail, is oriented to in different ways, and is differently available in different viewings and ‘representations’ of the scene and its action. Analyses of the trouble’s technical detail are also shown to be instructive for discovering members’ concerns, and for the analysis to aid members’ in discovering their concerns too (Garfinkel, 2002).
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