![]() ![]() This argument is evident throughout the book, first as the reader is confronted with the subtitle, Why Evidence Matters, and lastly as the reader is confronted with the concluding chapter: "Toward Evidence-Based Ethnography. ![]() Positivist critics of ethnography and those who are disinclined towards the methodology will find it especially appealing, and the book is set up to be read towards a damning verdict-that evidence does not matter in ethnography, that it should, and ethnographers should take lessons from lawyers in the vetting and understanding of evidence. The book is compelling at first glance, and the cover includes a bloody fingerprint, suggesting that something sinister is afoot. ![]() ![]() The book was published in 2014 to wide acclaim. Her book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is based on Goffman’s six year immersion in a black neighborhood in West Philadelphia. Controversy sells, even for academic presses. Alice Goffman, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, is a controversial scholar. Interrogating Ethnography by Steven Lubet is a book that ethnographers will have to read, but is it for the right reasons? The dramatic charges and contentious exchanges between Steve Lubet and Alice Goffman that preceded the book have fueled interest and surely aided in the acquisition of a book contract. ![]()
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