By Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco, authors of Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview ResearchSuppose you are given two books, each based entirely on one year of ethnographic observations and interviews, and are told that one of them is a sound piece
By Valory Mitchell, co-author of Women on the River of Life: A Fifty-Year Study of Adult DevelopmentThere is something about the long-term study of lives that is breathtaking. Perhaps it is that, by making the whole life the “unit of study” we allow ourselves to touch on the mystery of life.