Interlocutors: Language, Power and Relationality in Decolonial Ethnographic Practice

A significant challenge for ethnographers since the 1980s has been how to name their relationships to the people with whom and about whom they produce knowledge. Following critiques of how the term "informant" encodes and reproduces colonial power dynamics, ethnographers have sought altern...

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Subtitles:"Special Issue: Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion"
Main Author: Leve, Lauren G. 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2022
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-61
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ethnology / Participative observation / Interview / Befragter / Eccentricity (Sociology) / Postcolonialism / Science ethics
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
NCJ Ethics of science
ZA Social sciences
Further subjects:B Fieldwork
B Ethics
B decolonial methods
B Materiality
B interlocutor
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