The collaborative ethnographic survey : perpetual negotiation with the Ch’orti’ Maya Ethnic Revitalization Movement / Brent Metz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metz, Brent E., author.

Series:

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.

SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chorti Indians--Political activity.

Chorti Indians.

Chorti Indians--Research.

Social surveys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.

Summary:

The author and Ch'orti' Maya movement leaders collaborated in an ethnographic survey in the former Ch'orti'-speaking counties of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, which was decolonizing relative to how ethnographies have traditionally been more unilaterally conducted. The collaboration was greatly facilitated by the author's previous multiyear ethnographic study of Ch'orti'-speaking populations in Guatemala. The research calls to the fore that collaboration does not mean equity, which is always a matter of degree. Both sides bring different skills, resources, and interests and thus exercise more or less power relative to the other from conception, through execution, to the presentation of the research. Greater degrees of collaboration and decolonization when working with indigenous people, requires perpetual communication, negotiation, reflection, and adjustment. The short-term rapport and the trust built, including for future ethnographers, and the problems solved for the partner population is well worth the trouble, however.

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ISBN:

1-5296-8934-1

9781529689341

OCLC:

1428169417