Toward an Ethnographic Language
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 84 (4) , 779-795
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1982.84.4.02a00030
Abstract
In this article a general language for the characterization of ethnographic research is suggested. Drawing on interpretive philosophy, especially the work of Gadamer and Schutz, a core process of ethnography is described that emphasizes the resolution of problems in understanding across tradition boundaries. Concepts from recent work in knowledge representation are incorporated into the discussion to integrate it with current interdisciplinary work. [ethnography, hermeneutics, knowledge representation]This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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