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Course Home E-mail the class Class discussion board FRIDAY HISTORICAL READINGS Oct 10: Pioneers Oct 17: Expertise Oct 24: Cliffords Oct 31: Danger Nov 7: El Dorado Nov 14: Emotions Nov 21: Natives M Dec 1: Assistants Dec 5: Summary MONDAY EXERCISES Sep 29: Experience Oct 6: Observation Oct 13: Interview Oct 20: Discomfort Oct 27: Formal Nov 3: Survey Nov 10: Photo Nov 17: Video Nov 24: Digital |
Native ethnographers are not new; Te Rangi Hiroa, for example, was quite active as an ethnographer of various Polynesian cultures in the early 20th century. But it is a fairly recent phenomenon that native ethnographers have reflected on their unique positionally as insider-outsiders, in contrast to the usual foreign ethnographer's position as outsider-insiders. There are clearly epistemological and methodological differences in the way outsider and insider ethnographers work.
Read the following:
Then, by midnight on Thursday, November 20, post a comment of about 200 words on whether you think insider and outsider ethnographers can or should use the same methods and whether or not they are likely to come up with the same results. |