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The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree
Author(s) -
Heider Karl G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1988.90.1.02a00050
Subject(s) - strict constructionism , positivism , ethnography , sociology , epistemology , field (mathematics) , anthropology , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
Disagreements between ethnographers often arise because of the particular circumstances of field‐work or attributes of the ethnographers. A positivist search for truth versus error may be less fruitful than a constructionist examination of the research itself. This article suggests a conceptual framework for such a constructionist approach.