A Collaborative Approach To Research Utilization

The most essential issue which applied anthropology faces is how to maximize the possibility that the data anthropologists produce will be used to maintain or improve the well-being of those whom they study. This paper argues that if the anthropologist wants participants to utilize the data and its analysis, then he or she cannot simply play the traditional ethnographic role and merely add feedback at the end. Rather, both the ethnographer and the participants must play a special configuration of roles in relation to each other and the research. This relationship involves a different matching of motives than the traditional ethnographer-participant relationship. In the traditional relationship, the anthropologist's primary motive is that of understanding and analysis. The participant's motives may include being listened to and understood, having their identity confirmed, possibly receiving economic or political benefits through association with the anthropologist. Such a relationship, however, is not sufficient to induce participants to use the research except in very peripheral and indirect ways. In the relationship I am proposing, the anthropologist's primary motive is to contribute to the well-being or effectiveness of participants, and the participants' primary motive is to use research findings to improve their well-being and the well-being of those for whom they are responsible

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  Open Access•Jim Rock, Jenny Rock et al.•Science Communication•2018

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