Breaking the Ethnographer’s Frames
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- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Behavioral Scientist
- Vol. 47 (12) , 1528-1550
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764204266238
Abstract
This article assesses the use of auto-driven photo elicitation among children Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka. Comparing the data previously collected from word-only interviews with the data collected from auto-driven photo-elicited interviews, the author discusses how the latter field method tended to evoke greater descriptions from the research participants, how the descriptions were more emotionally charged than word-only descriptions, and how the autodriven approach was an effective means of bridging the culturally distinct worlds of the researcher and the researched.Keywords
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