Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others

Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others
ISBN-10
0415151902
ISBN-13
9780415151900
Category
Social Science
Pages
257
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Charlotte Aull Davies

Description

Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology. However, contemporary debate on themes such as modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity and self/other put the value of fieldwork into question. Reflexive Ethnographyprovides a practical and comprehensive guide to ethnographic research methods which fully engages with these significant issues. Reflexive Ethnographytackles all the relevant research questions, including chapters on selection of topics and methods, data collection, analysis, and ethics and politics. Charlotte Aull Davies stresses that the researcher's own subjectivity need not have a negative effect on their methodology. Reflexive ethnography can create a unique form of material which is not accessible through native texts, but which is neither simply the product of the individual anthropologist's psyche. Instead it generates knowledge which in essence reflects social reality.

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