Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies: Innovations in Ethnography

Kenny, Erin

doi:10.1525/an.2006.47.9.26

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“…With regard to the latter, comparisons are made to previous research undertaken in their regions of origin, so that the study takes on a multi-site dimension commonly used in contemporary migration studies (Kenny, 2006). The present study thus represents a rupture with classical ethnography, which assumes cultural and sub-cultural homogeneity.…”

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Enchanted (and Disenchanted) Amazonia: Environmental Ethics and Cultural Identity in Northern Brazil

Hoefle¹

2009

Ethics, Place & Environment

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Enchanted (and Disenchanted) Amazonia: Environmental Ethics and Cultural Identity in Northern Brazil

Hoefle¹

2009

Ethics, Place & Environment

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“…Marcus (1995) offered an interesting way out of this dilemma through trans-disciplinary, multi-sited ethnography, which would work through space, following people or cultural processes without necessarily diminishing fieldwork competencies and losing sight of 'subaltern' subjects. Since 1995 this strategy has become the norm and has obvious advantages in research on contemporary subjects such as migration studies (Kenny, 2006), so giving anthropology a tremendous push toward studying 'globalization'. However, 'iconically identifying a cultural phenomenon in one site that is reproduced elsewhere' (Marcus, 1995: 111, my emphasis) does not tackle the problem of spatial differentiation and cultural complexity, which leads different ethnographers working in the same general area at the same scale of analysis to disagree about the empirical veracity of their observations.…”

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Hoefle

2008

Critique of Anthropology

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■ A political ecology approach is used to revisit the 1970s debate between Douglas and Leach on one side, and Harris on the other, in order to highlight methodological issues concerning spatial differentiation expressing cultural complexity as well as to demonstrate how opposing phenomenological and rationalist epistemologies can be mediated. The two sides of the debate concerning pigs as ambiguous and taboo creatures are shown to be related to two different sets of human-animal relationships and to vary spatially in different parts of the Sertão of Northeast Brazil. Consequently, the combination of the two contrasting approaches in one unified theoretical perspective results in a better overview than that produced by each one taken by itself.

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Mediational Analysis in HIV/AIDS Research: Estimating Multivariate Path Analytic Models in a Structural Equation Modeling Framework

2006

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Mediational analyses have been recognized as useful in answering two broad questions that arise in HIV/AIDS research, those of theoretical model testing and of the effectiveness of multicomponent interventions. This article serves as a primer for those wishing to use mediation techniques in their own research, with a specific focus on mediation applied in the context of path analysis within a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework. Mediational analyses and the SEM framework are reviewed at a general level, followed by a discussion of the techniques as applied to complex research designs, such as models with multiple mediators, multilevel or longitudinal data, categorical outcomes, and problematic data (e.g., missing data, nonnormally distributed variables). Issues of statistical power and of testing the significance of the mediated effect are also discussed. Concrete examples that include computer syntax and output are provided to demonstrate the application of these techniques to testing a theoretical model and to the evaluation of a multicomponent intervention.

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Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies: Innovations in Ethnography

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Enchanted (and Disenchanted) Amazonia: Environmental Ethics and Cultural Identity in Northern Brazil

Enchanted (and Disenchanted) Amazonia: Environmental Ethics and Cultural Identity in Northern Brazil

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Mediational Analysis in HIV/AIDS Research: Estimating Multivariate Path Analytic Models in a Structural Equation Modeling Framework

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