Devereux
How do you write sujectivity into ethnography in such a way that you can continue to call what you are doing ethnography?
should we be worried that a smoke alarm will blare in our ear when the ethnography grow perilously hot and 'too personal '
Clifford Geertz
'close-in contact with far-out lives'
ethnography VS anthropology
RELATIONSHIP: ethnography serves as the only proof that anthropologist's voyage.
REPETITION: anthropologist's conversations and interactions in the field can never again be eaxactly reproducad
author-saturated and author-evacuated tests, neithor romance or lab report, but something in between
consider the later phases: the moment of writing and the reception of the anthropologist's test
researcher
debate on researcher's role
pace one's own story/passion in ethnography
self-detachment; give others fire and feeling
what it means to be an insider in a culture
question
can we give both the observer and the observed a chance at tragedy?
Sandra Harding
'the beliefs and behaviors of the researcher are part of the empirical evidence for(or against)' the claims advanced in the results of research.
Donna Haraway
'location is about vulnerability; location resists the politics of closure, finality'
autobiography VS ethnography
Bill, T,Jones: the material world is a place 'that exists only in the moment, a place of illusion'
anthropology
past
'give voice' to others,rooted in'I'
recent
viewed as plural, ahistorical, nonindividuated
'Anthropologist who has come to know others by knowing herself and who has come to know herself by knowing others.'
