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(EMBODIED)ETHNOGRAPHYKey Concepts in Human Geography Seminar SeriesKelly Dombroski November 5th 2012
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• From Greek ethnos (folk or people) and grapho (to write).
THEN• Traditionally the one-year in-situ
participant observation characteristic of the lone , heroic anthropologist.
• Thick written descriptions, often detailed descriptions of rituals.
NOW• A methodology of participant
observation.• Focused on understanding and
making sense of the relations and practices that make up the everyday life of a particular group.
WHAT IS ETHNOGRAPHY?
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IT IS NOT:• Interviews, even qualitative
ones (although there are ‘ethnographic interviews’ where you observe and participate in the interview process itself as a site of knowledge production).
• Participatory methods, even in-situ ones (although these can play a part in the knowledge making process)
See Herbert 2000
WHAT IS ETHNOGRAPHY?
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• Understanding the (particularly social and cultural) processes and relations that constitute place or space.
• Bodies in space and place• Objects in space and place• Power/knowledge and place• Indigenous communities• Multi-sited and multi-local
ethnographies• Difficult questions
See Watson and Till 2010
ETHNOGRAPHY IN GEOGRAPHY(QUESTIONS)
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OUT-THERE • Documenting ‘the Other’• Part of a colonial/ state project?(see Tuhiwai-Smith 2012)
IN-HERE• Autoethnographies• Studying up(see Ellis and Bochner, Anderson, others here…)
SOMETHING ELSE?
ETHNOGRAPHY IN GEOGRAPHY(OUT-THERE, IN-HERE)
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• The legacy of the ‘my village’ anthropologist
ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE PROBLEM OF ‘SITE’