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    Observation on the Move: Shadowing Varieties of observation 6 A brie! history of shadowing “ ‘The uses of shadowing «6 The shadowy side of shadowing 64 Beercise 5: Shadowing 56 Further reading 86 The complexities of contemporary societies increase the dilfcully of auch ‘eeditonal techniques of observation as participant observation and stationary direct observation. Phis chapter focuses on the echnique of shadowing, as one ay of avoiding those dliticulties, ‘VARIETIES OF OBSERVATION Mos of the knowledge which people have about social relations is derived from ‘uncontrolled observation, whether participant cr wonpatiipane, (Goode and Hare, 1952: 120) Phere ate indeed variations in observation techniques although they tend to borin fis fild The distinctions drawn here are merely ta asst a methodological rele ERLE disillng waits that do not exist separately in research practice, Tite choice is Geer tas of the reseatcher, and i soften an ethical as much as a methodological choice : 44 “The anthropologist actually moves fom one role to the other while im the Feld. He map, for example, go 08 a Fshing tip 82 participant, but daring ie rection for an important religious ceremony fe will nerview frmay etapowtnt participant or recor’ he in chats daring se ceremony This hee nace easier By the fick ehat the pate ofthe society are ot likely 0 a aged in important way by the presene ofan outsider ifthe roe ofthe Tater i property defined, (Goode and Hate 1952: 122) “More than a hf century after Goode and Hait wrote these words, social scientists ror ahnologits or anthropologits of contemporary societies ~ men and wore arc Yer me have inerited mat ofthe Geld tzchniques of our predecessor, Tee amnion (one-way miro hklen camer) i wed in social work,psychol- cpa erimiloy, bot considered neti whenever is happening wien Pa pletion andor withoue the knowledge and appromal of people obser aa ge de! elsowaton inchuding open videotaping), which canbe divided snes paidpant and noparcpatosowaton. Bs xcssed in Chapter Tthere has been sre de of debe over wha sad what na pariipant observation, ad my Ferre oot an answer tomy pragmatic needs tater than an atempe to bring final seaciine matter [ belive cht ie makes sense f0 call i‘pariipant observation aoe rere ace doing de same chings a the people (or some af the people) they woe gecrng Seltobyervation (Brinkmann 2012} can be aso counted as Kind of paticipane observaton.* ‘Noruricpane overation ca be farther vied imo shadowing and ation abr sina Bhorogeapy and vdeo recording sed ely on by achropologiss (Collier and Ceicr 1980) can aid bod of them, andar increasingly pesent in al oil suds, Sane fellows [cus on those types of observation techniques I consider help~ Fa igen te ways of work ail lie of mobile people Kving in contemporary Nea kin with shadowing ~ following selected people for a dime in theit sreitiy occupations This approach allows he researcher fo move wit them ABRIEF HISTORY OF SHADOWING 1 fist encountered the technique of shadowing in the work of tallan sociologist Minas Schei (1989), who, ducing 2 prolonged visit 10 the USA, followed + neighbor's daughter to school every day. eee ir Traman Capote a her role mode In is short tory days wodk (1973). CCopat ok readers how, for dhe whole working dy, he fllowed a eaig womad ee eveything he wis not woman, Hispanic large, working cls, beterosexta) we eaponcs ory, Seas saw an exellent example ofa idea suggested Dy Rass titropher and ieary theorist Mikhail Bn. Bakin (1981) argued ht aan eed he sav then as deeply sociological ~ require an autor ro assume 29 rere Cot outtdedness that would provide diferent grounds for comsunication than nthe sg the rally 1This fy t0 of the psychol- ‘without served = divided bas been and my ga final they sary ober ollie and suds der help emery hem, sociologist ‘allowed we (1973), rig woman rerosesu: sy Rasian ‘har good cation than Shadowing 45 does mach-romanscized empath. e aims at undestanding not by idenscation (hey are like us) but bythe region of dives (eae ferent from them and they ae

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