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... of verisimilitude and truthfulness. How can we reconcile fidelity to the facts, fidelity to genre conventions and disciplinary boundaries, fidelity to the people whose lives we write about, and fidelity to received standards of logical rigor, scientific impartiality, or proper conduct? ethnographic truth...

... Ethnographic writing can be clear and engaging without sacrificing theory and analysis. ethnography academic writing truth ...

... for the ethnographer are analyzed. The introduction ends with a presentation of the structure and chapters of the volume. ethnography publics popularization politicization courage of truth ...

..., it is remarkable that they would be brought up only when ethnographers uncover uncomfortable truths about sensitive issues. El-Haj had touched upon the most shielded topic in Western societies, the one that has been euphemized under the official call for civility and on which censorship and self-censorship have...

... In this chapter, Matt Richardson employs an ethnographic perspective to examine Sharon Bridgforth’s The love conjure/blues Text installation . He contends that the jazz aesthetic, an artistic practice that encourages layering of images, ideas, sound, and experiences, informs Bridgforth’s...

... Chapter 8 examines protracted statelessness among highlanders in northern Thailand, a context of ostensibly stable citizenship law and rationalized bureaucracy. By coupling intensive ethnographic research with extensive survey data, Amanda Flaim locates the reproduction of statelessness...

... ethnographers uncover uncomfortable truths about sensitive issues. El-Haj had touched upon the most shielded topic in Western societies, the one that has been euphemized under the official call for civility and on which censorship and self-censorship have become extreme in recent years. academic freedom...

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... in their lives. Rooted within more than a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, this essay analyzes the music tracks and political worldviews of American desi rappers who forge connections across nations and religions to identify with other Brown youth in North Africa and the Middle East. “Muslim-looking” rappers...

... peoples themselves, expressed the supposed needs and will of the Ayoreo. More specifically a tension arose between two public ethnographies: one, tactical, which used ethnographic authority to impose the paradigm of a traditional society to be defended; the other, reflexive, which critically analyzed...

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... invites renewed exploration of the fragile relationship between truth and politics, a condition that applies not only to authoritarian circumstances but to the proliferation of “fake news” and “alternative truths” in the United States as well. Far from helping to establish “what really happened,” emerging...

... neighborhoods is a response to the inefficacy of law enforcement agencies, she used her ethnographic work to complicate the picture, showing that violence had broader grounds in postapartheid society, that popular anxieties regarding insecurity had multiple causes, and that demands for social justice were...

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... officials, and the indigenous peoples themselves, expressed the supposed needs and will of the Ayoreo. More specifically a tension arose between two public ethnographies: one, tactical, which used ethnographic authority to impose the paradigm of a traditional society to be defended; the other, reflexive...