Make Me Reflexive, but Not Yet
Strategies for Managing Essential Reflexivity in Ethnographic Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2957930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham Watson (0000-0002-2279-7431, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-41 |
| Publication date | 1987-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/jar.43.1.3630465 |
| OpenAlex | W2326628051 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 27 |
There is much muddled thinking about reflexivity in the writing of members of the interpretive school of anthropology. The muddle consists, in the first place, in paying lip service to relativism while stubbornly clinging to realism and, in the second place, in claiming to confront reflexivity while merely managing it. The root of the trouble lies in anthropologists' failure to acknowledge that reflexivity is not merely something which one "does," such as engaging in self-reflection, but is, rather, an essential and inevitable property of all discourse. The fact that reflexivity is essential is potentially subversive of the authority of the author; hence numerous strategies for managing it
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Realism · Reflexivity · Relativism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Présentation
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Female Spirit Mediums and Religious Authority in Contemporary Southeastern China
The Ethnographer as Community Manager
Research in Black and White
Postcolonialities
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Hunger and the Hardness of Facts
Distinguished Lecture
Ethnography in Revision
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The Phenomenon of the 'Radical Lawyer
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Rationality and relativism
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Observers observed
A Crack in the Mirror
Dialogue and fiction in ethnography
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Whatever should be done with indexical expressions
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Textual Persuasion
The Problem of Reflexivity in the Sociology of Science
Reply to Steven Lukes
Laboratory Studies
Opening Pandora's box
Reflexivity
Tropics of Discourse
Ethnographies as Texts
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Ontological Gerrymandering
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| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2025 (38) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |