What is it about?
These guidelines show that ethnographic research differs from medical, psychological, or other formal research designs, and that because of these differences ethnographic research data have to be managed differently.
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Why is it important?
The protocols for data management used by many universities, funding agencies and journals do not take account of these differences. These guidelines help ethnographic researchers to explain that their forms of data management are different.
Perspectives
This article is a joint product. It is the result of a collaboration of several years that, among other things, aimed to create consensus about basic principles of ethnographic research. This was necessary because academic authorities often did not recoginze these principles. It was successful in the sense that this publication was preceded by others (see the discussion in Social Anthropology vol. 26 no. 3 (2018), pp. 391-413) and has been endorsed in a shorter form by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (see https://easaonline.org/downloads/support/EASA%20statement%20on%20data%20governance.pdf ).
Peter Pels
Universiteit Leiden
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This page is a summary of: Guidelines for data management and scientific integrity in ethnography, Ethnography, December 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1466138118819018.
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