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Stoller: Last Thoughts on Subjectivity
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... »
Stoller
At the beginning of this course, I had a vague idea that the way to ‘do’ ethnography was to show up with a notebook, a recorder, a video camera, observe, come home, edit everything down and end up with something similar to one of those National Geographic shows about the West Indies. I was... »
Paul Stoller
Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries 12 May 2009 Commentary 10 “The way in which we choose to write is an ethical issue” (Pryer 10). When I read this line from Pryer’s article two week’s ago, I thought it summed up my dilemma concerning the use of memoir or narrative as an ethnographic form of research. In my commentary,... »