ANT 325M Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethnography, Unobservable, Participant Observation
30 Jan 2017
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It"s important to remember that while it"s called visual ethnography," it"s not solely visual. It"s usually combined with other forms, like writing or sensory. Ethnography and ethnographic images: handbooks of traditional research methods tend to represent ethnography as a mixture of participant observation and interviewing. Actual definition: ethnography is a methodology that is an approach to experiencing, interpreting and representing experience, culture, society and material and sensory environments that informs and is informed by sets of different disciplinary agendas and theoretical principles. It"s contingent on how it is situated, interpreted and used to invoke meanings, imaginings and knowledge that are of ethnographic interest. Reflexivity forms an important part of ethnographic practice. A reflexive approach recognizes the centrality of the subjectivity of the researcher to the production and representation of ethnographic knowledge. Being a reflexive visual ethnographer involves interrogating how we are situated within the ethnographic research context: unobservable ethnography, invisibility and the problem of reality.
