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The practice of writing ethnographic fieldnotes

Geoffrey Walford Department of Education, University of Oxford, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford, OX2 6PY, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 117-130 | Published online: 17 Jun 2009

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