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Participant observation in rural Mexico : what my child taught me / Laura A. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Laura A., active 2024, author.
- Series:
- SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.
- SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Mexico.
- Ethnology.
- Participant observation--Mexico.
- Participant observation.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Motherhood--Mexico.
- Motherhood.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024.
- Summary:
- This case study explores the interplay between personal identity and participant observation through the lens of the author's ethnographic research in a rural Mexican village. My journey as an anthropologist, mother, and outsider shapes my fieldwork and some thematic emphases. I address the community's cultural intricacies, shedding light on nuanced relationships between children, key symbols, and social identities while underscoring the dynamic nature of ethnographic research, the challenges of objectivity, and how personal circumstances both constrain and enrich the understandings that emerge from shared experiences and perspectives.
- Notes:
- Description based on XML content.
- ISBN:
- 1-5296-8691-1
- 9781529686913
- OCLC:
- 1428170129
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