“I was afraid someone like you… an outsider… would misunderstand”: Negotiating interpretive differences between ethnographers and subjects’

This article represents a reflexive look at the role of the folklore ethnographer in field research and in writing. The author addresses the ethical and scholarly dimensions of a continued dialogue between ethnographers and subjects. She proposes to take the anthropological goals of “reflexive ethnography” even further in her elaboration of a new approach that she terms “reciprocal ethnography.”