ABSTRACT

In this methodological afterword we reflect on our experiment with a more collaborative way of doing ethnography in this study. Returning to some of the classic anthropological texts we argue that ethnography need not be conceived as a lone and lonely way of writing cultural life. Through engaging with the work of anti-colonial, postcolonial and feminist writers we argue for a sociable model of research that makes a case for how ethnography can be reconfigured as an avowedly collaborative method and form of writing. In particular, we show how we arrived at the form of collaborative authorship we have developed in this book.