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Is Anonymity an Artifact in Ethnographic Research
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In this paper, the authors explore how anonymity is undermined in the data-gathering, analysis, and publication stages in ethnography and also examine problems associated with maintaining a collective identity, including the natural accretions of daily life, the underuse of data, and the remoteness of place and time between the gathering-data stage and the eventual publications of findings.Abstract:
While anonymity is a widely-held goal in research-ethics review policies, it is a virtually unachievable goal in ethnographic and qualitative research. This paper explores how anonymity is undermined in the data-gathering, analysis, and publication stages in ethnography. It also examines problems associated with maintaining a collective identity. What maintains anonymity, however, are the natural accretions of daily life, the underuse of data, and the remoteness of place and time between the gathering-data stage and the eventual publications of findings.read more
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When Prophecy Fails
TL;DR: When Prophecy Fails as mentioned in this paper is a powerful account of what happens to ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances, and it is also a surprisingly touching account of ordinary people' reactions when their prophecy is not fulfilled.
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When Prophecy Fails.
TL;DR: When Prophecy Fails as discussed by the authors is a powerful account of what happens to ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances, and it is also a surprisingly touching account of ordinary people' reactions when their prophecy is not fulfilled.
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The ethics of ethnography
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the challenges that confront ethnographers as they design and carry out studies, and as they analyse, interpret and publish findings, and the ways in which these are conventionall;! tr;mslate•d into guiding principles.