Clearly this is a bit of invention on my part.
I would have not expected this type of white lie to appear in the ethnography
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We are storytellers. We a
I have never heard of ethnographers self-identifying as storytellers. I think there's something about the word's connotations that seem incongruous with evidence-based writing but I'm guessing their referring to the interpretation part of ethnography.
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What surprised me?
Questions to keep in mind
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Keep Accurate Fieldnotes
Come back to these pointers before doing site visit
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North American middle-class family as if it were part of a different tribe or culture.
This reminds me of the exercise of analyzing the "foreign culture" of the "Nacirema" to see how one's culture might appear to others objectively.
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(or even familiar)
Is ever really possible to do this entirely without biases that we might not even recognize?
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s members over the years, we were unaware of those groups as actual cultures, but looking back as fi eldworkers, we now understand that we, like you, have always been in a position to research the people around us.
I agree that often this "membership" into a certain culture is most often unconscious
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even those who investigate local cultures and subcultures, risk projecting their own assumptions onto the groups they study
Need to be aware of our biases and acknowledge them to attempt to not let them interfere with the ethnography
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