subjectivist reflexivity

is a challenge to the the sacred boundaries of identity that differentiate scientific ethnography from travel accounts.

In feminism, this kind of reflexivity was pioneered in autobiography, and its appearance as a style of ethnography is simply a carryover. As such, ethnography has been fully integrated with a discourse in which subjectivist reflexivity is not only already legitimate, but where it has a special power and function. (396) The situation in anthropology is, of course, quite different: subjectivist reflexivity challenged the sacred boundaries of identity that differentiate scientific ethnography from travel accounts, memoirs, missionary reports, and the like. It had nothing like the preexisting legitimacy or purpose in anthropology that it had in feminism.

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subjectivist reflexivity