To read this content please select one of the options below:

Losing Bigfoot

The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were

ISBN: 978-1-78714-774-4, eISBN: 978-1-78714-773-7

Publication date: 7 January 2019

Abstract

The chapter sketches out a putative ethnography of Bigfooting, detailing what we can study from analysing television programmes of the practice, but also what we lose by not being there, by not embedding ourselves in the Bigfooting community, and by not participating in their woodland expeditions.

Keywords

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mark Connolly, Des Fitzgerald and Emilie Whitaker for reading an earlier draft of the manuscript. Thanks are also due to the editors, Sara Delamont and Robin Smith, for their supportive comments on a previous version.

Citation

Lewis, J. and Bartlett, A. (2019), "Losing Bigfoot", Smith, R.J. and Delamont, S. (Ed.) The Lost Ethnographies: Methodological Insights from Projects that Never Were (Studies in Qualitative Methodology, Vol. 17), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1042-319220190000017007

Publisher

:

Emerald Publishing Limited