OTOETNOGRAFI: MEMPELAJARI KASUS PRIBADI PENELITI
ABSTRACT: Ethnographic
research is very close to case studies. Throughout its development, views and
ways of doing ethnography experienced change. At first ethnography was merely
describing ethnic groups as a case study which is done by making a detailed and
objective description. In more recent time it became a description on a
community which holds within it records of the researcher’s subjective
experiences while searching for data in the field. There is a realization that
cases that are presented through ethnography is by the researcher’s choice
whether intentionally or not, even through compromise with an informant. The
ethnography’s representational issues became stronger. Besides the realization
of representation and authority in describing a community, discussions on
modern-day ethnography is also filled with chosen cases that are more personal.
Some experts offer the possibility of autoethnography as a choice in writing an
ethnography. For the advocates, ethnography is able to bring up cases that have
not been exposed by researchers from beyond the analyzed community.
Autoethnography has become a way of articulating descriptions of the
marginalized community. In the context of Indonesia, I see that autoethnography
can be used as an offer towards the birth of claims of Indonesian anthropology.
Keywords: autoethnography,
case, representation, method
Penulis: Semiarto Aji Purwanto
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd110010
