ABSTRACT
At the heart of the ethnographic enterprise is the relationship between researcher and researched for many commentators (cf. Hammersley and Atkinson, 1983; Burgess, 1984) have remarked on the way in which ethnographic data are based on close relationships in the field. This has lead some researchers to point to the importance of understanding the dynamics of the relationship between the researcher and the researched (cf. Casagrane, 1960; Burgess, 1985a) and in turn the relationship between the researcher, the research, the process of researching and the results that are disseminated (cf. Peshkin, 1982). But we might ask: What are the characteristics of this relationship between those who research and those who are researched?
