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Learning to Talk About Gender and Sexuality Learning to Talk About Gender and Sexuality
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Initial Encounters and False Impressions Initial Encounters and False Impressions
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What Kind of Participant Are You? What Kind of Participant Are You?
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The Productive Pitfalls of Partial Identification The Productive Pitfalls of Partial Identification
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Conclusion: Tactics of Ethnographic Intersubjectivity Conclusion: Tactics of Ethnographic Intersubjectivity
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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References References
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Notes Notes
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Talk About Intimate Subjects: Ethnographic Approaches to Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Get accessDepartment of Anthropology, SUNY Purchase
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Published:04 April 2019
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This version:August 2022
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Abstract
Ethnographic research is to a great extent a process of language socialization. Like children and other neophytes, ethnographers learn how to use language to participate in the social worlds they are studying. For scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, this ideally entails developing communicative competence as gendered and sexual subjects: we learn how people talk, and don’t talk, about gender and sex. This chapter describes how long-term participant-observation, the core ethnographic research method, allowed the author to come to a (partial) appreciation of the language and subjectivities articulated by Hausa-speaking men in northern Nigeria, who saw themselves as “feminine” and/or enjoyed sex with other men. Using examples of miscommunication that occurred at different stages of fieldwork, the chapter illustrates how the time and attention required for ethnographic research can contribute to nuanced understandings of language, gender, and sexuality in particular cultural contexts.
This chapter has been updated for clarity.
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