How to Analyze Your Data without Lying about God

49 Sermons and a Reflection on the Systematic Analysis of Ethnographic Data

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2230360
AutoresBreslin (0000-0002-4728-4085, University of Copenhagen, autor correspondente), Daniel Souleles
Ano2024
Volume65
Fascículo5
Páginas767-786
Data de publicação2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/732690
OpenAlexW4402745511
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas66

Despite often heroic commitments to immersion in a given field context, and despite frequent theoretical fluency in analysis, anthropologists rarely show the steps by which they analyze and interpret their data. Because of this, the validity of anthropological analyses is generally difficult to assess, the reinterpretation of existing studies is often a dubious proposition, and the ethical implications of research sampling strategies are often impossible to know. This essay makes use of a corpus of sermon data collected over a summer at a Catholic monastery to illustrate the limitations of sociocultural, ethnographic anthropology as currently practiced and offers several strategies for the interpretation, analysis, and presentation of anthropological data meant to fix these limitations.

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