Introduction. Comparing Ethnographies Across the Americas: Queries and Lessons

Abstract

Crossing borders to compare ethnographic research across the Americas is difficult but imperative. In this volume, the editors and authors demonstrate what education researchers can learn by comparing ethnographic studies of similar problems conducted by scholars from Latin America on the one hand and from the United States and Canada on the other. From the volume’s case studies, each co-authored by ethnographers from two different countries, readers will learn how work done in other parts of the hemisphere can expand the boundaries of their own research and theorizing.