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Stoller: Last Thoughts on Subjectivity

By fsnowden

I left our last class discussion on Stoller thinking that we have spent much too much time on discussing subjectivity instead of the aims and goals of ethnographic study. I have always thought that subjectivity is an unavoidable hindrance to research and researchers must do what they can to uncover and neutralize it.  I... »

Commentary #10

By arussell

Adam Russell Ethnographer as Storyteller   When I read Pryer’s article, I thought that she was making a case for fictionalization in the sense that events are fluid, and some things can be taken out all together while others are embellished.  After reading Stoller’s article, I realize that Pryer isn’t validating the use of falsification but rather,... »