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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. 1). It is one of colonialism smost sordid , qualitative research, in many if not all of its forms (observation, participa-tion, interviewing, ethnography), serves as a metaphor for colonial knowledge, forpower, and for truth.

inquiry (1995–2000); the methodologically contested present(2000–2004); and the fractured future,which is now (2005– ). The future, the eighth moment, confronts the methodological backlash associated with the evidence-based social movement. It is concerned with moral discourse, with the development of sacred textualities. The

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