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2 11 INTRODUCTIONThe Discipline andPractice of Qualitative ResearchNorman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. LincolnWriting about scientific research, including qualitative research, from thevantage point of the colonized, a position that she chooses to privilege,Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) states that the term research is inextricablylinked to European imperialism and colonialism. She continues, The word itself isprobably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world s isimplicated in the worst excesses of colonialism, with the ways in which knowledgeabout indigenous peoples was collected, classified, and then represented back to theWest (p. 1). This dirty word stirs up anger, silence, distrust. It is so powerful thatindigenous people even write poetry about research (p.)

Soon qualitative research would be employed in other social and behavioral science disciplines, including education (especially the work of Dewey), history, poli- ... qualitative researchers extolled the humanistic virtues of their subjective, interpretive approach to the study of human group ... These include the traditions associated with ...

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