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Some notes on the play of basketball in its circumstantial detail, and an introduction to their occasion

Douglas Macbeth

pp. 193-208

Abstract

In the late 1980s, I wrote up some notes on the play of pick-up basketball and sent them to Harold Garfinkel, who incorporated them into an un-published monograph in 1988. They were motivated by an interest in exhibiting the sense of "detail" for ethnomethodological studies. An edited version is presented below. They follow a front piece of recollection and discussion about Garfinkel's distinctive interests in matters of "detail," their tie to structure and structure's circumstantiality, and their place in EM studies.

Publication details

Published in:

Psathas George, Endreß Martin (2012) In memoriam of Harold Garfinkel. Human Studies 35 (2).

Pages: 193-208

DOI: 10.1007/s10746-012-9235-z

Full citation:

Macbeth Douglas (2012) „Some notes on the play of basketball in its circumstantial detail, and an introduction to their occasion“. Human Studies 35 (2), 193–208.