Ethnographic triangulation

In late-breaking news, I just had some interesting exchanges with two graduate students (one in anthropology, the other in development sociology) doing quite similar work to what I have been either doing or dreaming about doing. One, the sociologist, is also incorporating a component of "conflict resolution literature" and thinking, while the anthropologist is more ethnographically centered on understanding the impacts (real or potential) of adjudication and these lawsuits (like Aamodt) on acequia districts. This is both heartening and challenging, since I don't want to be engaged in research "scooping" of graduate students -- so there's real promise for an unholy trifecta of disciplinary perspectives on this topic, but we'll have to pay attention to who's on the rope and whether the net will catch all of our ideas. Fun...

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Anonymous said…
That's exciting! I think that one of the missing things about our work is that we don't have more interaction with grad students (which I know I could foster but I haven't yet) to keep us on our toes research wise and provide new perspectives for our stuff :)
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