Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology
@article{Lassiter2005CollaborativeEA, title={Collaborative Ethnography and Public Anthropology}, author={Luke Eric Lassiter}, journal={Current Anthropology}, year={2005}, volume={46}, pages={83 - 106} }
Collaborative ethnographythe collaboration of researchers and subjects in the production of ethnographic textsoffers us a powerful way to engage the public with anthropology. As one of many academic/applied approaches, contemporary collaborative ethnography stems from a wellestablished historical tradition of collaboratively produced texts that are often overlooked. Feminist and postmodernist efforts to recenter ethnography along dialogical lines further contextualize this historically situated…
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