Plenary A (Local comm): Doubt and determination in ethnography
Channel: NomadIT
Date: 2020-08-21

Joao Pina-Cabral (University of Kent), Stephan Palmie (University of Chicago), Stephan Palmie (University of Chicago), Ashley Lebner (Wilfrid Laurier University)

See more: https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/panels#9096

In writing ethnographic accounts, we are bound to attribute causal links between events and to attribute agency to collective entities. Yet, ethnographic evidence is constituted by experiences of communication that are grounded in indeterminacy and that remain ultimately underdetermined. In this plenary, we would like to explore how ethnographic doubt is written into the ethnographic narrative. In short, what does the ethnographer have to assume to make ethnography possible?