Short Take: Lowering the Access Barriers to Ethnographic Methodology. Issue 2 (May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pham, Tony V
• Is Part Of: Field methods. Volume 33:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 175
• Page End: 184
• Publication Date: 2021-05
• Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Anthropologie -- Méthodologie -- Périodiques; 306.072
• DOI: 10.1177/1525822X20971092
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1525-822X

Abstract

Researchers based in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) often cannot access conventional but high-priced ethnographic tools. I developed a low-cost methodology as an exercise in meeting the needs of both LMIC-based researchers and the broader qualitative community. As demonstrated in this proof of concept, ethnographic researchers should strive for a suite of open access software tools and common and affordable hardware to reduce inequities in knowledge generation and dissemination.