Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO): A Participatory Method for Ethnographic Research

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Field Methods Pub Date : 2023-09-18 DOI:10.1177/1525822x231198989

Anais Roque, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Melissa Beresford, Laura Landes, Olga Morales-Pate, Ramon Lucero, Wendy Jepson, Yushiou Tsai, Michael Hanemann

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Abstract

Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align researchers’ and communities’ agendas through focused collaboration. Participant-observation and community-based participatory research have different scholarly origins and norms but are united in centering communities’ understandings on their terms. Combining the strengths of both, we provide a step-by-step explanation of community-based participant-observation, with examples from a study of water insecurity in colonias north of the U.S.–Mexico border. Using community-based participant-observation, researchers can facilitate the co-production of knowledge and community benefit by analyzing high-quality data that inform theory building and basic research.

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基于社区的参与式观察(CBPO):民族志研究的参与式方法

基于社区的参与式观察有目的地将参与式观察与基于社区的参与式研究相结合。虽然参与式观察是民族志的核心方法和文化人类学的基础，但基于社区的参与式研究最初出现于健康和相关应用科学，通过重点合作使研究人员和社区的议程保持一致。参与式观察和基于社区的参与式研究有不同的学术起源和规范，但在将社区的理解集中在他们的条件上是统一的。结合两者的优势，我们提供了基于社区的参与式观察的逐步解释，并以美墨边境北部殖民地水不安全研究为例。利用基于社区的参与式观察，研究人员可以通过分析为理论建设和基础研究提供信息的高质量数据，促进知识和社区利益的共同生产。

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2.70

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5.90%

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