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In ethnography, reflexivity has come to mean thinking carefully about who has undertaken the research, under what conditions, how it was written up and what impact these questions might have on the value of the ethnography produced. In anthropology, reflexivity has come to have two distinct meanings, one that refers to the researcher’s awareness of an analytic focus on his or her relationship to the field of study, and the other that attends to the ways that cultural practices involve consciousness and commentary on themselves. In the following case study, Mwenda Ntarangwi reflects on his experience of being an African anthropologist in American culture.

reflexivity The process of reflection on the research process