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Making a theatrical documentary from interviews about conflict surrounding salmon habitat restoration and farmland preservation in the Skagit Valley of Washington State was originally conceived as a way to present my ethnographic results in a transformative medium for my research subjects.
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Breslow, S.J. (2015). When the Anthropologist becomes a Character. In: Vettraino, E., Linds, W. (eds) Playing in a House of Mirrors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-118-2_14
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