Relational ethnography
Relational ethnography
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DOI：
10.1007/s11186-014-9232-5
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Desmond, Matthew
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作者：
Desmond, Matthew
所有与民族志相关的问题都源于研究过程之初的一个决定--选择基本的分析对象--然而田野工作者对这一至关重要的任务缺乏关注。因此，大多数人都把由地点或社会分类界定的有界实体作为出发点，这样做限制了他们可以使用的论点的种类。本文提出了关系民族志的替代方案。关系民族志涉及研究领域而不是地方，边界而不是有界的群体，过程而不是经过处理的人，文化冲突而不是群体文化。虽然这种方法有其自身的一系列挑战，但它提供了一种民族志方法，与社会现实的关系和过程性质一起工作。
All matters related to ethnography flow from a decision that originates at the very beginning of the research process-the selection of the basic object of analysis-and yet fieldworkers pay scant attention to this crucial task. As a result, most take as their starting point bounded entities delimited by location or social classification and in so doing restrict the kinds of arguments available to them. This article presents the alternative of relational ethnography. Relational ethnography involves studying fields rather than places, boundaries rather than bounded groups, processes rather than processed people, and cultural conflict rather than group culture. While this approach comes with its own set of challenges, it offers an ethnographic method that works with the relational and processual nature of social reality.