Ethnography Considered Harmful
This is a critical essay on the current practices of ethnographies. The authors talk about new practices for ethnography's while criticizing the old. They do offer critics of the new ideas but I think this essay was more of a literary exercise for them than anything worth reading. They made use of well constructed sentences and obscure quotes that often times were barely relevant. I don't think I gained anything from reading this paper and wish they could give me my time back.
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Agreed on all points. Not very valuable - the kind of thing I would write if I really wanted to get accepted into a conference.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not my favorite paper this semester, but it does have some points, although I'm not particularly inclined to agree on either side.
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