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To begin with ethnography is to begin in synchronism with the actions and images of this research.You learn ethnography through practices, and perhaps a little bit of apprenticeship. There are guidelines but few rules. More or less anything goes (Buraway, 2000: 25). I, Mônica, grew up in an urban area, in the city centre of São Paulo – a megalopolis of Brazil, exchanging energy with certain modes of life – urban modes. The people that live in the street have their own mode of life and this mode impacted my own mode of life in many powerful ways.
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Mesquita, M., Restivo, S., D’Ambrosio, U. (2011). Mônica’s Voice. In: Mesquita, M., Restivo, S., D’Ambrosio, U. (eds) Asphalt Children and City Streets. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-633-5_1
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