Citation

Supriya KE. Text Perform. Q. 2001; 21(4): 225-246.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10462930128128

PMID

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Abstract

To date, scholars have tended to construe ethnographic self-reflexivity primarily as an epistemological resolution of issues related to knowledge of self and other rather than as a performance in its own right. This essay shifts this focus and answers two questions: What does it mean to perform ethnographic self-reflexivity? What are the crucial principles underlying such a performance? The author's fieldwork experience at a domestic violence shelter for Asian women is used to explore and illustrate principles that ought to guide self-reflexive ethnographers' performative enactments and performative evocations.