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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.
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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&feature=related • 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