Ethnography & Participatory

Research

Today’s Readings• Clifford, J. (1986). Introduction: partial truths. In Clifford, J. and Marcus, G.E. (Eds.), Writing

culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography (pp.1-26). California; London: University of California Press.

• Mascia-Lees, F.E. et al. (1989). The postmodern turn in anthropology: cautions from a feminist

perspective Signs 15(1): 7-33

• Fine, G. A. (1993). “Ten lies of ethnography.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22, pp. 267-294.

• Jordan, S. (2003). “Who stole my methodology? Co-opting PAR.” Globalisation, Societies & Education, 1(2), 185-200.

• Shaver, Frances M. (2005) “Sex Work Research. Methodological and Ethical Challenges”, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, March 2005 20(3): 296-319.

• Weinberger, E. (1992). The camera people. Transition, (55), 24-54.

Tales From The Jungle: Bronislaw Malinowski

• Film clip about an exposé of the hidden biases of one of the ‘fathers’ of modern anthropology, a proponent of participatory approaches in ethnographic fieldwork– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f22VsAlOwbc

Tales from the Jungle: Margaret Mead

• Scandal about the credibility of Margaret Mead’s research & the foundations of anthropology– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOa3ftAKnzo&

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– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HNzhV0CjI• Hoax or joke?– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdTDbUIeKk

Secrets of the Tribe

• Critiques of mid-20th-c. anthropologists—especially Napoleon Chagnon’s filming of the Yanomamo.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFON4N9dWo0