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Collaboration in ethnography can describe vastly different relationships between individual researchers, research team members, the people they study, and those on whom they rely for background information, support and fieldwork data. This chapter traces a number of historical trajectories of collaboration in ethnography through two terms that consistently appear in the literature: collaborative ethnography and team ethnography. It first defines each term through the work of key authors, outlines how collaboration is understood and practiced according to these definitions, and references sample publications associated with each in tabulated form. It then locates the authors’ approach to doing ethnography in teams within this literature, explicating the similarities and differences to these documented understandings. The chapter can be used as a reading guide to the chapters that follow as well as the suggested readings in the appendices.
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Clerke, T., Hopwood, N. (2014). Ethnography as Collective Research Endeavor. In: Doing Ethnography in Teams. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05618-0_2
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