The Reversal of the Ethnological Perspective: Attempts At Objectifying One's Own Cultural Horizon: Dumont, Foucault, Bourdieu

Eastern-European Sex Workers in Greek-Cypriot Cabarets

“…Insider status to various cultural groups, and the associated gain in personal experiential knowledge, provides the researcher with the much needed security, agency, and legitimacy to transform issues of inquiry into formal scientific knowledge. Various explanations of social psychological phenomena can therefore be tapped into through one's personal experiences thus bringing them to the forefront of consciousness and, hopefully, to life through writing (Clifford & Marcus, 1986;Ellis & Bochner, 1992;Fuchs, 1993;Moerman, 1988). The author has been closely interacting, residing, and painstakingly developing true friendships with sex workers and cabaret patrons as well as personnel.…”

A requiem for the `primitive'

“…Moreover, it would strive to avoid the reification or essentializing of difference, as well as, relatedly, reductionist dichotomies presuming the absolute and pure otherness of non-western cultures imagined as self-enclosed and homogenous entities (Thomas, 1991;Fuchs, 1993). For the purposes of this article, only a few succinct remarks can be advanced.…”

“…However, this is not to say that primitiveness originated in the modern era for, as Bartra (1994Bartra ( , 1997, Lovejoy and Boas (1935) and Boas (1948) have demonstrated, it was derived from ancient and medieval conceptions of the savage, the barbarian and the wild man. See Fuchs (1993). Following Lovejoy and Boas (1935), primitivism can be divided into either chronological or cultural streams; both idealize the primitive condition through the trope of the noble savage, although the first fondly looks back to humanity's remote past while the second celebrates the simplicity of an existing uncivilized state.…”

Guidelines for Reporting and Evaluating Qualitative Research: What are the alternatives?

“…343± 344) On one side, there are those who argue that there is nothing unique about qualitative research and that traditional de® nitions of reliability, validity, objectivity, and generalizability apply across both qualitative and quantitative approaches. On the other side, there are those postmodernists who contend that there can be no criteria for judging qualitative research outcomes (Fuchs, 1993). In this radical relativist position, all criteria are doubtful and none can be privileged.…”