2005/02/01 by Luke Eric Lassiter · 526 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Anthropology #Anthropology of art #Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture #Applied anthropology #Art history #Computer science #Contemporary art #Dialogical self #Digital anthropology #Epistemology #Ethnography #History #Knowledge production #Philosophy #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #Situated #Sociocultural anthropology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1086/425658
published in Current Anthropology 46(1), 83-106 (University of Chicago Press)
openalex publication_date 2005/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Collaborative ethnographythe collaboration of researchers and subjects in the production of ethnographic textsoffers us a powerful way to engage the public with anthropology. As one of many academic/applied approaches, contemporary collaborative ethnography stems from a wellestablished historical tradition of collaboratively produced texts that are often overlooked. Feminist and postmodernist efforts to recenter ethnography along dialogical lines further contextualize this historically situated collaborative practice. The goals of collaborative ethnography (both historical and contemporary) are now powerfully converging with those of a public anthropology that pulls together academic and applied anthropology in an effort to serve humankind more directly and more immediately.