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Reflexive Textuality: Researcher as Fractured Context
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review
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Reflexive Textuality: Researcher as Fractured Context
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Erasga, Dennis S; Behavioral Sciences Department, De La Salle University-Manila, Philippines
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Social Sciences
Text, mimesis intertextuality, reflexive textuality, reader-centered criticism, fractured context |
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| Description |
Ethnography is a form of reading in its postmodern sense. This is a methodological principle the present paper attempted to demonstrate. By analyzing an ethnographic work written by a Filipina anthropologist about a religious community in the Philippines, the author generated several rules concretizing a research methodology he called reflexive textuality. This approach transforms investigators into readers of both text and context. The basic assumption however, is that whether the investigators are reading texts and/or contexts, their interpretive engagement extends to and matters most in, the actual writing of their textual outputs. Thus, reflexive textuality does not only involve contextualizing a text (i.e., interpreting a text via its context), but also textualizing a context (i.e., converting context into a readable text). In the latter, the multiple and fragile positions a researcher invokes and brings into play while writing his/her ethnography ultimately displace the authentic context of the data set initially co-produced and co-interpreted with research participants. The paper ends with some notes on the implications of reflexive textuality as a qualitative research approach. KEYWORDS: Text, mimesis intertextuality, reflexive textuality, reader-centered criticism, fractured context
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De La Salle University
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2008-05-12
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Peer-reviewed Article
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application/pdf
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http://www.philjol.info/philjol/index.php/APSSR/article/view/114
10.3860/apssr.v7i1.114 |
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Asia-Pacific Social Science Review; Vol 7, No 1 (2007); 45-58
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en
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Philippines
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