"Wait a Second. Who Are You Anyways?": The Insider/Outsider Debate and American Indian Studies
"Wait a Second. Who Are You Anyways?": The Insider/Outsider Debate and American Indian Studies
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“等一下。你到底是谁？”：内部/外部争论和美洲印第安人研究
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10.1353/aiq.2009.a362024
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2009
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R. Innes
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自20世纪70年代以来，女性、非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、穆斯林美国人、同性恋者、青年、大学管理人员和其他在家乡社区进行研究的人蓬勃发展。内部研究人员的增加引发了对其学术有效性的争论。内部研究的批评者断言，内部人员与他们的研究社区的密切关系会影响他们的观点，并导致有偏见的研究结果。内部人士反驳说，他们的定位提供了外部人士所不具备的对社区的背景理解。因此，内部人士提出的问题挑战了他们社区的先入为主的观念，并扩大了学术知识。内部人士对他们的研究的讨论极大地促进了我们对在家庭社区进行研究所涉及的复杂问题的理解。他们的研究经历--既有障碍也有好处--为国内的研究提供了蓝图，并挑战了内部研究缺乏学术价值的观点。虽然不是一个新现象，但在过去的二十年里，研究其家乡社区的北美原住民人数急剧增加。土著研究人员可以从其他内部研究人员在开展研究和处理试图破坏其研究有效性的批评方面的经验中获益匪浅。对内部研究人员如何处理这些问题的研究表明，这些问题与土著内部研究人员有关，可以帮助他们在自己的社区进行研究。美国印第安人研究是跨学科的，这使得美国印第安人研究学者可以灵活地将方法，理论，
Insider research women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans, gays, youth, university administrators, and others conducting research in their home communities has flourished since the 1970s. The increase in insider researcher has sparked a debate about its scholarly validity. The critics of insider research have asserted that insiders' closeness to their research community clouds their views and leads to biased research findings. Insiders counter that their positioning provides a contextual understanding of the community that outsiders do not possess. As such, insiders pose questions that challenge preconceived notions of their communities and expand scholarly knowledge. Insiders' discussions about their research have contributed greatly to our understanding of the complex issues involved in undertaking research in home communities. Their research experiences both the obstacles and the benefits provide a blueprint for researching from home and challenge the view that insider research lacks scholarly merit. While not a new phenomenon, the number of Native North Americans researching their home communities has increased dramatically in the last two decades.1 However, Indigenous researchers have not joined the insider/ outsider debate to any significant extent. Indigenous researchers have much to gain from the experiences of other insider researchers in both conducting research and addressing criticisms that attempt to undermine the validity of their research. An examination of how insider researchers have tackled these concerns illustrates how these concerns are relevant to Aboriginal insider researchers and can assist them in conducting research in their home communities. American Indian studies is interdisciplinary, which allows American Indian studies scholars the flexibility to incorporate methods, theories,