An ethnographer in the global arena

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ID4262966
AuthorsJoy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume3
Issue4
Pages497-512
Publication date2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1471-0374.00074
OpenAlexW1990940339
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited23

In this article Hendry addresses the difficulties and apparent contradictions of applying the qualitative rigour of the ethnographic research method to fieldwork carried out in a global context. While pursuing a discourse evidently shared by people indigenous to many different parts of the world, the author reflects on why she feels the work she is doing still draws on elements of the qualitative strength of the method first developed by her own discipline of social anthropology. This subject is now somewhat unfashionable for reasons precisely associated with the discourse she is following, namely a status inequality seen as implicit in the representation of 'other' peoples. In the article she argues against throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however, and seeks to demonstrate how the value the ethnographic method gleaned from social anthropology offers an important contribution to understanding local aspects of global issues

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Representation · Representation (politics · Rigour · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Value (mathematics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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