09 On Social Position and Ethnographic Authority

What is the role of situated knowledge in each of these pieces? How does the author’s positionality shape their perspective on science, ethics, politics, and the ethnographic process?

How do the ideas of pracademics and citizen anthropologist engage with native and insider anthropology?

Put pracademics and Jones’s alignment with political principle in conversation with the concept of cultural relativism. Is a politicized anthropology fully compatible with cultural relativism? And does the situated knowledge of “native-ness” shape an anthropologist’s ability to offer sociopolitical critique?