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Ah Dzib P'izté Chilam Balam Project SELT Project Ethnography Defined Our Mission & Goals Our Principles & Methods History Overview Student Research Projects |
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The Field School in Experimental Ethnography (1997-1999) Two overarching principles governed its conceptual design and organization. First, the Field School program combined intensive and long term field research with a pedagogical agenda of training students in ethnographic fieldwork. Second, the Field School program sought to both theorize and put into practice a mode of ethnography that it called experimental ethnography. While this term has come to refer to a movement focused on issues of representation in ethnographic writing, it is used here to refer to an emergent theory and practice of fieldwork. Experimental ethnography is a paradigmatic mode of fieldwork in which given, prior and assumed knowledges are used and recirculated in fieldwork activities, dynamics, and practices with the goals of actualizing an ethnographic process that both a) has relevance to and for the communities with which research is conducted and b) experiments with the very practices of fieldwork itself with the aim of theorizing, and reconfiguring alternative forms of, ethnography.   |