Writing friendship : a reciprocal ethnography
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 255476138
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-26542-7
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030265410
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Double weighting is requested for this output representing the outcome of a decade-long project. This sustained research effort over ten years necessitated the development, testing and implementation of novel, long-term reciprocal methodologies in ethnographic data collection, as well as the creation of new collaborative strategies of analysis and writing-up. This lengthy period of reciprocal work (intensive mutual observation, dialogic engagement, co-theorising, collaborative writing) was essential to the output’s ethnographic and theoretical contribution. Each of the chapters in the output is built around very different sets of data and incorporates contrasting fieldwork, analysis, and writing-up methodologies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The process of writing the book is described by the attributed individual in the appendix. The book was conceived by the attributed individual, originally as Liria de la Cruz´s life story. However, they proposed to Liria a reciprocal experiment. Although the aim of the reciprocal project was for the two authors to share the work of interviewing, analysis and writing up, it soon became clear that this would be impossible. Liria lacked the time to give to the project and, having left school very young, the necessary educational background.
Labour was divided as follows:
Each author interviewed the other, and together they interviewed the informants whose stories are told in Chapter 5. Liria produced handwritten texts and the attributed individual typed her own sections.
Additionally, the attributed individual carried out the following tasks:
• Provided Liria with detailed guidance for the development of her handwritten texts.
• Transcribed and edited the handwritten texts that Liria produced, often altering the length, structure and direction of the texts very substantially whilst trying to remain as faithful as possible to Liria´s personality, style and intent.
• Transcribed all interviews and recorded conversations, translating and editing them.
• Constructed the structure and argument of each chapter, choosing which materials to include and shaping them into coherent pieces. Once each chapter was finished, the two authors examined it together, and the attributed individual implemented any changes agreed with Liria.
• Planned and guided the writing of the book, constructing and implementing the overall argument and structure, ensuring that the whole product was coherent, original, rigorous and anthropologically meaningful.
• Devised the anthropological contribution of the book, shaping each chapter so that its place within the volume and within the discipline was as clear as possible.
• Wrote the Appendix where this contribution is critically examined.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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