tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3785588426313655790.post3532452127904099010..comments2023-10-02T09:56:58.350+02:00Comments on ethnosnacker: Has ethnography become a ‘fat’ word?: Caroline Hayter, Acacia AvenueSiamack Salarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09912359258394837378noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3785588426313655790.post-20946702945902906932009-07-03T20:50:37.758+02:002009-07-03T20:50:37.758+02:00The debate among business or design centered pract...The debate among business or design centered practitioners on what ethnography "is" is, perhaps, a reflection of their own culture(s): newness, hype, business development, smoke & mirrors and a little bullshit thrown in for good measure. By this I mean to ask a question: What's new about this debate? The answer, for those who have followed the history of ethnography and read ethnographies, is nothing. Academic anthropologists have been debating this very question - either from the top down or bottom up through their methods - for ages. And that, perhaps, is where the problem lies: method. Reducing ethnography down to a data collection method misses the point and, more importantly, misses the process. Ethnography is the art & science of telling stories about other people's (and sometimes our own) stories. Scan through a century plus of ethnographic writing in anthropology and what becomes abundantly clear is that the "best" ethnographies tell the best, most complete stories structured, in part, by the methods through which data were collected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com