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The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography.(Book review)

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LASSITER, LUKE ERIC. The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography. xiv, 201 pp., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]8.50 (paper)

It seems that every generation of anthropologists experiences an ethical crisis that beckons a heated dialogue regarding the nature and mission of the discipline. The most recent of such crises regarding anthropological 'interference' in native affairs came to the forefront with the publication of Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado (2000), which sparked a spirited, if not fragmented, debate regarding the extent to which anthropologists should engage the publics with whom our research is concerned. In The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography Lassiter consolidates this dialogue in arguing for an 'approach to ethnography that deliberately and explicitly emphasizes collaboration [with native consultants] at every point in the ethnographic process without veiling it--from project conceptualization, to fieldwork, and especially, through the writing process' (p. 16, emphasis original).…

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