Natural? The romantic notion of ethnographic research is that we conduct naturalistic observation. But what is natural? Anthropologists understand that in any research setting we begin with some level of unnaturalness - it’s impossible to avoid. The trick? The first step is to acknowledge this fact. The second is to decide how much unnaturalness the study can handle. In other words, we must first understand that we are intruders and then we must decide what level of intrusion our study, our participants and we as researchers can tolerate.
October 29th, 2007 - Posted in Ethnography | |
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