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Authority and Voice in Student Ethnographic Writing
Author(s) -
KUTZ ELEANOR
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1990.21.4.04x0595w
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , pedagogy , media studies , anthropology
In this essay I look at issues of authority and voice as they have entered the current critique of ethnographic writing. Arguing that ethnographic research provides a way of helping students to gain the authority that comes from engagement in real inquiry, I examine the relationship between that growing authority and the voice in which it is expressed.