From Car to House (Del coche a la casa)

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ID2461007
AuthorsStephen Gudeman (University of Minnesota), Alberto Rivera (0009-0000-8899-5142, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Bogota), Alberto J Olvera (0000-0003-3330-2542)
Year1995
Volume97
Issue2
Pages242-250
Publication date1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/aa.1995.97.2.02a00040
OpenAlexW2169456054
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited23

Joint fieldwork has led the authors to question several accepted ideas of ethnographic method and theory. According to traditional wisdom, the fieldworker is a solitary figure who, acting as participant and observer, strives to overcome a gap of knowledge between her world and that of others; ethnographies are compilations, translations, and interpretations of knowable facts. In contrast to this construction, the authors' collaboration suggests that in fieldwork the anthropologist creates a community of inquiry. This community includes voices from the field, from home, from the past, and from joint workers; the ethnographer participates in many-stranded conversations and contexts of learning. Ethnographies are not objective reports or displays of new methodologies but the products of artisans who draw on the skills and imaginations of many. like good conversations and culture itself, ethnographies are never complete

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Participant observation · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society

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