Slow ethnography

A hut with a view

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2360976
AutoresLiza Grandia (University of California, Davis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen35
Número3
Páginas301-317
Fecha de publicación2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritique of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0308275x15588616
OpenAlexW2422867747
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas35

Informed by the snail's pace of the Zapatista 'caracol' process and the Slow Food movement, this contribution explores the liberatory potential of 'slow ethnography' over two decades in the Maya lowlands of Guatemala and Belize, oriented from a 'hut with a view'. Against the unbearable lightness of multi-sited imaginaries, I describe the intellectual and personal discoveries gained from following Laura Nader's framework for 'studying up, down and sideways'. This article makes a case for how the slowness of research possessed by place might serve as a critical 'as a point of reference' (in Zapatista terms) on an ever-quickening planet. The analysis also suggests how slower, more ethical and reciprocal processes of research might help heal anthropology's longstanding disciplinary entanglements and conflicts with native peoples

Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Maya · Pace · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy