Rethinking the Methodological Path of Ethnographic Research in Times of a Pandemic: A Brief Literature Review

• Autor(a) principal: Cátia Candido da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Fabrícia Teixeira Borges
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.9.2021.110-118
• topic: Metodologia; Etnografia; Pandemia; Covid-19; Methodology; Ethnography; Pandemic; Covid-19

This article is a literature review that aimed to identify how ethnographic researchers solved the impasse of the need for changes in methodological paths imposed by physical distance due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We sought to identify which solutions were proposed by scholars to enable the continuity of research. Covid-19 is a new disease with a high infectivity and diffusion power. Its spread across the world led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic and recommend social distance as one of the measures to mitigate its spread. Such an event changed the daily life of the population, resulting in the compulsory reorganization of relational configurations. These changes have also impacted academic production, especially regarding the conduct of research with an ethnographic approach, as immersion in the field for the production of data has become unviable. In this context, the research that we have in progress was affected, since our object of study is based on elements of the constitution of the subjectivities of Candomblecist children and adolescents, which had led us to choose ethnography. In view of the necessary redefinition of the methodological routes, we consider it relevant to identify how other researchers solved this impasse. To this end, we conducted a literature review with searches on the Capes Periodicals Portal and Scielo Brasil, using the descriptors ethnography and pandemic together. We analyzed 04 empirical studies that underwent changes in the methodological proposal due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, it was observed that the researchers ensured the continuity of the research through the methodological hybridization and the platform. Among the most used research tools are virtual social networks (Facebook and WhatsApp) and videoconferencing platforms (Jitsi Meet), in addition to Google Forms. We believe that the findings of this review may serve as inspiration for other researchers who need to change the method of their research.