The most striking aspect of doing ethnography is forever seeing difference. That behavior is different than that behavior is different than that behavior. It’s really the novelty and allure of the work – seeing the variety of ways people live and do things. The key is to incorporate difference into analyses and still draw meaningful and, when necessary, actionable conclusions. So when doing an ethnographic project, ask yourself: are there things to observe, questions to ask, structural elements to consider that will help my ethnography be more than just a description of difference?
September 21st, 2007 - Posted in Ethnography | |
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We’re studying ourselves: Most accept the death of objectivity in anthropological research, that there is no such thing as a purely objective observation. For we are the research tool and all that we see is mediated by ourselves, channeled. Is it possible then that all ethnography may be read as one longitudinal study about the ethnographers?
September 5th, 2007 - Posted in Ethnography | |
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