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Are you researching with me, or against us? : Nature and dynamics of ethnographic team research

Publication at Faculty of Science, Faculty of Education |
2010

Abstract

Fieldwork represents one of the distinctive and constitutive features of social anthropology. In its classic form consisting of long-term stationary research, an anthropologist - "lone ethnographer" - is the one and only research and interpretive tool.

But there are also alternative forms of anthropological research that modify this classic model and thus require different approach to ethnographic research and also specific form of its reflection. The aim of our paper is to show nature and dynamics of team research by an example of our own research.

We will try to assess all phases of research process - covering formulation of research questions, maintaining field relationships, data gathering and analysis and research report writing. We will focus particularly on 1) negotiation of position of individual researches in the team; 2) negotiation of position of individual researches in the field and 3) negotiation of team as an integral subject in the field.