What's the State of Ethnography Today?
Ethnography as research methodology has undergone many changes since the first generation of anthropologists took to the field in safari hats just after the turn of the last century. The end of colonization in Africa and Asia in the 1960s and 1970s was accompanied by a strong postcolonial critique of anthropology as a discipline and ethnography as methodology. Anthropologists were criticized for their dependence on colonial governments for funds, patronage, and at times protection, and on missionaries who provided “grammars, transportation, introductions, and in certain cases … a deeper translation of language and customs than can be acquired in a one- or two-year visit” (Clifford, 1997, p. 65). Equally ...
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