Turning Out Good Ethnography, or Talking out of Turn

Gender, Violence, and Confidentiality in Southeastern Mexico

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365147
AutoresJayne Howell (0000-0003-0351-582X, California State University, Long Beach, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas323-352
Data de publicação2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241604263588
OpenAlexW2088373418
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas44

Ethnographers face a dilemma once they become privy to sensitive information shared with them in the role of "friend" rather than in the role of researcher. The author explores this topic using as a case study information that emerged when friends in southern Mexico confided their personal experiences with sexual violence, arguing that it may be only through the sharing of confidences that firsthand accounts of responses to violence can enter the ethnographic record. Yet the women's concerns that their experiences might become public knowledge coincide with broader debates of researchers' preservation of informants' privacy, particularly when discussing culturally sensitive topics such as rape

Criminology · Dilemma · Epistemology · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept · Media studies · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology