ABSTRACT
You sit in your Ethnography of Communication class, first semester doctoral seminar, trying to understand, trying to get at the depth and complexity and brilliance of the readings, like Deborah Gordon’s “Writing Culture, Writing Feminism” (1988). You stretch to understand experimental ethnography, to understand representation and identification, multiple realities, the construction between the inquirer and the inquired, how knowledge creates thinking subjects. You are learning to question the relationship between the ethnographer, the participant, and the reader. You are learning to question Western practices of representation. You are learning to question interpretation and mediums of expression. You are learning to push the limits of form.
