Question

Pink, S.2015. Doing sensory Ethnographic Los Angeles, sage argues on ethnography. Reading and please give the details and page numbers of the argument

Answer 1

I can do that — but before I give page numbers I need to confirm which exact edition you have. Sarah Pink’s Doing Sensory Ethnography was published by SAGE in 2009 (1st ed.) and a later edition was published in 2015. Page numbering can differ between printings/editions and between UK/US or paperback/hardback copies, so I don’t want to give incorrect page references.

Do you mean:
- Sarah Pink, Doing Sensory Ethnography, SAGE, 2015 (which edition — 2nd edition or a reprint)?
Or do you have a specific copy (publisher location, ISBN) you can tell me about or upload?

While you confirm, here is a concise summary of the central arguments Pink advances (so you have the content immediately). If you tell me which edition or upload the PDF, I’ll add exact page numbers and short quotations.

Main arguments in Doing Sensory Ethnography (Pink)
- Ethnography must attend to the senses: Social life is constituted through multisensory experience (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, movement). Ethnographers should study and represent these sensory processes rather than treating talk alone as the primary data source.
- “Doing” rather than only “writing” ethnography: Methods are embodied practices. The researcher’s body is an instrument — research is a set of sensory practices, skilled activities and performances situated in place.
- Emplacement and materiality: Sensory experience is shaped by place, objects and material arrangements. To understand social life you must study how people sense places and how places are sensed.
- Multimodal and experimental methods: Pink advocates combining conventional ethnographic tools with multimodal forms (sound recording, film, photography, walking methods, sketching, sensory mapping) and experimenting with how to capture, analyze and represent sensory data.
- Representation and aesthetics: Because sensory experience is hard to convey by text alone, ethnographers should use creative, multimodal representational strategies (film, images, audio) while reflecting on the epistemological and ethical implications of such representations.
- Analysis and interpretation of sensory data: Sensory data require analytic approaches that attend to embodied knowledge, atmospheres, affect and the temporal/performative character of sensing. She emphasizes careful description and interpretation that links sensory practice to sociocultural meaning.
- Reflexivity and ethics: Attention to positionality, power relations and the ethical responsibilities of researchers when attending to intimate or embodied aspects of people's lives.

If you want exact chapter locations and page numbers for each of these claims (for citation or close reading), tell me which edition/copy you have (or upload it) and I’ll extract the precise page references and short quotes.