Reflections on Anthropology's Ethnographic Crisis of Faith

Snow, David A.; Morrill, Calvin; Herbert, Christopher; 1885-1945.,; Kuklick, Henrika; Strocking, George; Stocking, George W.

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“…In terms of goals, form scholars are first and foremost interested in contributing cumulative knowledge by providing the sharpest picture of reality possible. Some, but not all, also embrace social justice orientations, with one common tenet being that social-change goals are best met when scholars have done their first job well (Snow and Morrill 1993).…”

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The Form and Flow of Teaching Ethnographic Knowledge: Hands-on Approaches for Learning Epistemology

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2017

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A glance across ethnographic methods terrain reveals multiple controversies and divisive critiques. When training graduate students, these debates and controversies can be consequential. We offer suggestions for teaching graduate ethnographic methods courses that, first, help students understand some of the common epistemological debates in the field and, second, provide them with hands-on activities to practice working within different knowledge traditions. Our ultimate goal is to offer graduate students a way to think productively about some common differences and controversies in the field. We formulate a metaphor that we call “form and flow,” and we see the first (or “tough-minded,” normal, and traditional approaches) and the latter (or tender-minded and disruptive styles) as patterns or movements within and across ethnographic traditions. Once students can grasp the different claims in these approaches and practice working within these traditions, we argue that they can become better prepared for their place in a diverse discipline.

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“…Also, form researchers tend to distrust what informants say or write if that is taken as the principal, or only, type of data. This view often leads researchers to triangulate information (Denzin 1970) and otherwise rely on multiple data sources to reach “close approximations of reality” (Snow and Morrill 1993).…”

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The Form and Flow of Teaching Ethnographic Knowledge: Hands-on Approaches for Learning Epistemology

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Irwin

2017

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“…to get a feel of the situation. Participation was meant to facilitate a good cross comparison of uses of public spaces and behaviors of mall users and also, to borrow from Snow and Morrill [19], to secure "a close approximation of the empirical world", in this case, the responses to spatial regulations and the playing out of social life inside the shopping malls. For the interview, first, the researcher asked the permission of the intended participants.…”

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Public Space as Contested Space: The Battle over the Use, Meaning and Function of Public Space

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2016

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Abstract-Background:The optimists among the public space scholarship argue that instead of a well-organized, carefully concerted and highly controlled urban social life, what unfolds in regulated public spaces are a mé lange of manifold incongruous lifestyles and a spatial condition. Thistheoretical proposition claims that public spaces are contested spaces offering a potent description of everyday reality in privatized public spaces like the shopping mall. But is a similar mechanics available outside the developed world? Objective: The study looked into the empirical validity of the urban spatial experiences of a developing country like the Philippines. Method: Case study method is employed. Verbal and observational data were analyzed using the process of pattern matching. Findings: Evidence indicates that oppositional politics exists in the public spaces of the privatized built environments. And this oppositional politics springs from three competing conceptualizations: the "by us", "for us", and "up to us" mentalities. Lessons Learned: Public space is not just about regulation; it is also about opposition. But unlike traditional forms of oppositional politics, these are not organized conquest of mall spaces; instead, they simply are individual acts of passive defiance.

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“…2. See Snow and Morrill (1993) for an abbreviated discussion of differences in the historical development of anthropology and sociology.…”

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Public Space as Contested Space: The Battle over the Use, Meaning and Function of Public Space

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