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- Title
Ethnography among 'experts': notes on collaboration and sabotage in the field.
- Authors
Gil GJ
- Abstract
Based on an analysis of how an ethnographic research project was received by 'experts' in the field, a series of reflections will be put forward on ethnographic fieldwork and some aspects of anthropological knowledge. Developed on the assumption that the vicissitudes of ethnographic practice are central to the process of knowing the 'Other', this reflexive exercise focuses on how informants may turn into either the ethnographer's saboteurs or his/her contributors -- and even co-authors. As spaces in the academic arena are shared -- and somehow disputed -- extremely conflictive relationships spring raising fears in the ethnographer, who may suffer direct sabotages in his experience on the field.
- Subjects
RESEARCH; ETHNOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY; FIELDWORK (Educational method); SABOTAGE; REFLEXIVITY
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/1468794109348682