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Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience - An Epistemological Critique (Paperback)
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Ethnographic Inquiry and Lived Experience - An Epistemological Critique (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best
to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative,
experience-near, and shareable accounts of human living. The first
question is regarding the epistemology of ethnography. Ho posits
that writing is epistemologically prior to the researcher's
fieldwork experience in the production of ethnographic knowledge.
This stance is developed using the theories of hermeneutics put
forward by Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer who both consider
that once a text is produced, its meaning is dissociated from the
intention of the author. The second question is: what is the
putative object that the ethnographer writes about? Ho argues that
"lived experience" (Erlebnis) offers such an ethnographic object.
Since the lived experience that an ethnographer experiences during
fieldwork cannot be studied directly, further theorizations of
lived experience are necessary. Ho underscores both the
non-discursivity and transcendence of lived experience in the
lifeworld, and the way power is clandestinely imbued in everyday
life in shaping subjectivity and practice. This theorization brings
together Alfred Schutz's lifeworld theory and Michel Foucault's
power/knowledge nexus. The result is a general theory of experience
that is pertinent for ethnographic inquiries. By addressing these
two fundamental questions and offering novel angles from which to
answer them, this book offers refreshed epistemological guidelines
for conducting ethnographic research for scientific reasoning. More
importantly, this book also provides a crucial knowledge base for
comprehending the current epistemological debates inherent in the
production of ethnographic knowledge and furthering discussions in
the field.
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