This article, originally written as a performative piece, presents the experiences and perceptions of five graduate students and one professor as they reflect on and write about becoming ethnographers throughout a graduate-level research course. Data sources include reflective journals, synthesis papers, and academic literature. Following the completion of
International Journal of Qualitative Methods 2011, 10(2)141 the course, the group came together and applied grounded theory to analyze the data and write collectively about their experiences, feelings, and insights on ethnographic work. They present the data as a readers theatre that incorporates portions of a children's book with the group's reflections. Like authors of other academic literature the group discusses the challenges and benefits of ethnographic research. Their collaborative writing reflects their polyvocality as they negotiated their journeys toward becoming ethnographers.
The literature on obsolescent languages provides both helpful and discouraging perspectives. The authors place the circumstances surrounding and the condition of indigenous languages in Western Canada in relation to that found in other parts of the world. Based on sociolinguistic research in Saskatchewan, Canada, a reflection of the significance of language loss for indigenous communities is set furth. INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, LANGUAGE DEATH, LANGUAGE RETEhTION, LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL Anthropology b Education Quarterly 26(1):27-49.
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