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Перевод: ethnographer

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этнограф

Тезаурус:

1. Her involvement in the process of witching and un-witching was the single path to obtaining any information on the subject, for she found she was unable to operate "in the standard situation in which information is exchanged and where the ethnographer may hope to have neutral knowledge about beliefs and practices" (ibid. 11).
2. In such a situation it is therefore all the more necessary to recognize the unique place the ethnographer holds and to capitalize on it.
3. Favret-Saada's unique analysis (ibid. 1-;28) of the bizarre subjective position she found herself in is a masterful assessment of the difficulties which arise when the ethnographer seeks to gain knowledge of a social group which depends for its existence on "misknowledge" or silence:
4. The ethnographer's conventional notepad can be obtrusive, yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift, it is impossible to dispense with it, for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive.
5. Traditionally in anthropology, the ethnographer has studied a social system or culture through a period of intensive participant observation in the field.
6. The issues about which respondents expressed concern included the use made of the results by, variously, the police authorities and the IRA, and the associated question of whether the field-worker was a spy for the authorities or the Republican paramilitaries (on researchers as spies see Hunt 1984: 288-;9; Manning 1972: 248); the obtrusiveness of the ethnographer's ubiquitous notepad; sensitivity to how the research might compromise their personal security or lead to a transfer, and worthies over the field-worker's religion; and the whole focus and topic of the investigation.
7. This transformational stance, she goes on to argue, allows the ethnographer to have a personal discourse on aspects which are outside the usual limits of the body or corpus of collected material.
8. Analysis of any construction of meaning from which social practice is derived has to be part of the participant ethnographer's cognitive processes, replacing the notion of simple observation as the main data-yielding technique.
9. And here the problem really begins, for the ethnographer must explore beyond the public presentation of self, to seek the underlying discourses of police reality.
10. Van Gennep's ideas on "rites of separation" (1960) are a useful means of interpreting the social and spatial movements undertaken by the ethnographer as policeman, as he moves out from the early uniformed position of centrality described above.
11. In this observing participation, the "thick description" which Geertz (1975) argued for comes hurtling at the ethnographer, so that the classic use of an "anthropological informant" is hardly necessary.
12. Furthermore, the political implication of becoming an observing participant in an institution such as the police is immense, both for the group studied and for the ethnographer.
13. THE POLICE OFFICER AS ETHNOGRAPHER: ANTHROPOLOGY AT HOME