TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper discusses my perceived positionality in an ethnographic research project on the contentious issue of female circumcision in Southwest Cameroon. My bicultural identity as a Western‐trained, African anthropologist is associated with power because of my perceived alliance with the ‘Whiteman’ (western, rational, scientific knowledge) showing how the anti‐female circumcision campaigns based on discursive practices of mortality and the harmful health effect paradigm have backlashed, suggesting the need to re‐evaluate and be aware of power dynamics between practicing and nonpracticing societies in the construction of the diverse reality of female circumcision. The ritual practice should rather be seen as opened to both rationalisation and modernisation, suggesting that there can be a synergy between local and global, rational science.
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
SN  - 1443-9883
DO  - 10.3316/QRJ1002003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3316/QRJ1002003
AU  - Vitalis Pemunta Ngambouk
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Intersubjectivity and Power in Ethnographic Research
T2  - Qualitative Research Journal
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 3
EP  - 19
Y2  - 2024/09/25
ER  -