Unlike for other forms of qualitative data, examples of how fieldnotes are analysed are rarely provided in the literature. Using fieldnotes from my ethnographic study of the production of public space on London's South Bank as a starting point, this paper considers why this might be the case. In particular, the paper argues that for fieldnote-based research, analysis is a feature of note-taking, rather than a discrete phase of activity conducted using our fieldnotes once they have been collected. In this vein, the paper encourages researchers to be aware of the analytical in their fieldnotes, and to be open to the ways that analysis inside the notebook can help us identify salient objects of enquiry in our work.

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田野笔记从来都不是真正的“原始”数据：分析伦敦南岸公共空间的社会生活

与其他形式的定性数据不同，文献中很少提供如何分析现场笔记的示例。本文以我对伦敦南岸公共空间生产的人种学研究的田野笔记为起点，思考为什么会出现这种情况。特别是，本文认为，对于基于田野笔记的研究，分析是笔记的一个特征，而不是收集田野笔记后使用田野笔记进行的活动的一个离散阶段。本着这种精神，本文鼓励研究人员了解现场笔记中的分析，并对笔记本中的分析可以帮助我们识别工作中的显着探究对象的方式持开放态度。