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- Title
“Which One Is Yours?”: Children and Ethnography.
- Authors
Levey, Hilary
- Abstract
This paper explores roles that children play in ethnographic research. Based on the limited literature on children in the field, and drawing on examples from ethnographies across disciplines, I identify four roles for children: 1) as “wedges,” or as instrumentally important in helping adult ethnographers gain access in various ways; 2) as collaborators; 3) as objects of study; and 4) as subjects of study. I also discuss the ways in which these roles illuminate key methodological issues in ethnography, like reflexivity, ethics, and agency. The paper synthesizes and integrates previously disconnected research on the presence of children in the field with ethnographies in which children and childhood are the topics of research. I draw on my own fieldwork experiences for further illustration.
- Subjects
CHILD research; ETHNOLOGY methodology; ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis; ETHNOLOGISTS; FIELD research; ETHNOGRAPHIC informants; INTERDISCIPLINARY approach to knowledge
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2009, Vol 32, Issue 3, p311
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-009-9130-8