Documentary and Ethnography: Exploring Ethical Fieldwork Models
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Conducting fieldwork frequently sparks ethical challenges as researcher and environment clash. This paper seeks to address these challenges, using documentary and ethnography methodologies as a lens to illuminate different ways of thinking about fieldwork ethics. In line with its more qualitative nature, this paper will accomplish its task via meta-analysis and historiography, analyzing past texts as well as introducing new thoughts through interviews with professionals. The key to confronting ethical challenges lies within one’s understanding of obligations. Despite a heightened sense of importance placed on ethics in recent years, not enough dialogue has been contributed to this topic. Further conversation may help fieldworkers realize the importance of considering ethics before confronting the grit and dynamism the world has to offer.
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