Searching for Selves in Mexico City
Location
Room 2078
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2011
End Date
January 2011
Abstract
Identity is at the heart of Gonzalez’s Four Seasons of Ethnography methodology – a spiritual and ontological approach toward the practice of ethnography. This presentation offers an account of an emergent ethnographer’s experiences with the Four Seasons methodology. It exposes the author’s struggles and victories as she grappled with issues of identity, voice, and representation during an intensive field experience in Mexico City.
Searching for Selves in Mexico City
Room 2078
Identity is at the heart of Gonzalez’s Four Seasons of Ethnography methodology – a spiritual and ontological approach toward the practice of ethnography. This presentation offers an account of an emergent ethnographer’s experiences with the Four Seasons methodology. It exposes the author’s struggles and victories as she grappled with issues of identity, voice, and representation during an intensive field experience in Mexico City.
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