Mindful Ethnography Mind Heart and Activity for Transformative Social Research | Research Methods

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Ethnography with all its limitations has as its strongest impulse the quest to see and understand “others” on their own terms and to step out of our own viewpoints in order to do so. Conjoining ethnography with mindfulness this book aims to support the best aspects of ethnography by enhancing the capacity to listen more deeply see more expansively keep a check on our biases and connect more compassionately with others. Mindful Ethnography addresses a central dilemma of ethnography: the relationship of self and other. It suggests ways of viewing the world from different perspectives getting beyond the categories of our culture and working with our own thoughts and feelings even as we aim to …