Ethnographic Postcards: The Mean Girl
It’s important to remain impartial when conducting ethnography. A mean girl at an after-school club challenged my role as a researcher.
Maija Sequeira is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research uses a cognitive anthropology approach to compare child-rearing and socialisation practices, and the norms and values that shape them, in two distinct socio-cultural contexts: Helsinki, Finland and Santa Marta, Colombia.
It’s important to remain impartial when conducting ethnography. A mean girl at an after-school club challenged my role as a researcher.