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Solicited and Unsolicited History: The Transformation in Ömie Self‐Presentation
Author(s) -
Rohatynskyj Marta Adrianna
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1998.tb02696.x
Subject(s) - independence (probability theory) , negotiation , transformation (genetics) , presentation (obstetrics) , ethnography , epistemology , sociology , history , anthropology , social science , mathematics , philosophy , statistics , medicine , biochemistry , radiology , gene , chemistry
ABSTRACT The history presented by the Ömie in the pre‐Independence research appears fundamentally different from the history presented by the Ömie in more recent research. The basis for considering these two renditions as analytically equivalent is examined. It is proposed that the justification lies not so much in the content of the two representations as in the negotiations of the terms of the ethnographic encounter which elicited them. It is proposed that these renditions of history are actually the terms of the relationship between the researcher and the informants negotiated in the course of their interaction on two separate occasions.