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Listening to the Native: The Non-Ironic Alternative to “Dialogic” Ethnography (as well as to Functionalism, Marxism and Structuralism)

Author(s)	Watson, Graham
Abstract	I propose to analyze 29 lines of fieldnotes concerning “bad medicine” among the Dene-Tha of northern Alberta. I hope to show how conversation analysis and ethnomethodology might illuminate two closely related matters of perennial concern to the ethnographer. One is the role of culture in shaping informants’ behaviour. The other is the apparent capacity of a culture under investigation to oblige the fieldworker to conform to local habits of thought. In the process, I shall be contrasting the sociological, descriptive, and non-ironic project of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis with the epistemological, analytical, and ironic projects of “interpretive” anthropology and social-constructionist sociology.
IssueNo
Pages	73-88
Article	Access to Article
Source	Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
VolumeNo	33
PubDate	1996
ISBN_ISSN	0008-4948
Browse Path(s)	Anthropology —-Methods and Approaches ——–Ethnological Approaches and Participant Observation

Listening to the Native: The Non-Ironic Alternative to “Dialogic” Ethnography (as well as to Functionalism, Marxism and Structuralism)