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LeCompte and Schensul (2013: 269) define vignettes as “snapshots or short descriptions of events or people that evoke the overall picture the ethnographer is trying to paint.” These brief, often dramatic scenes lack the full development of a story arc, but nonetheless offer some truth up to the reader.
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Gullion, J.S. (2016). Vignettes. In: Writing Ethnography. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-381-0_22
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