Watson1996
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Watson1996 |
| Author(s) | Graham Watson |
| Title | Listening to the Native: The Non-ironic Alternative to "Dialogic" Ethnography (As Well as to Funtionalism, Marxism and Structuralism) |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, cultural context, ethnography |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Journal | Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology |
| Volume | 33 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 73–88 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-618X.1996.tb00188.x |
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Abstract
This analysis of 29 lines of fieldnotes, which comprise a verbatim record of an interview concerning “bad medicine” among the Dene-Tha of northern Alberta, is intended to alert ethnographers to some of the ways in which ethnomethodology and conversation analysis can illuminate ethnographic interviews and fieldnotes. It demonstrates that cultural context, commonly assumed to “determine” or “influence” behaviour, is generated within conversation itself. It further demonstrates that cooperation between fieldworker and informant is much more pervasive than writers of “dialogic” experimental ethnographies appear to realize. It constitutes an empirical alternative to esoteric “interpretive” anthropological discourse not securely grounded in inspectable records of actual intercultural talk.
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