Hine’s paradox

Folding back ideas about the constructed nature of knowledge on to ethnography itself poses an interesting paradox: ethnographic knowledge too might be a cultural construct. (C. Hine, 2000, p. 55)

I find this argument odd. How can ethnography not be a cultural object. How can ethnography be an objective and factual portrayal?

How dealing with this?

1. compare member understandings of culture alongside the ethnograpgher’s
2. focus on the ethnographer’s perspective, giving differences in interpretations
3. epistemological correctness… it’s all constructed anyway….