EPISTEMIC CULTURES: (How) are epistemic cultures said to shape collaboration at this stage of the research process?

AO: The analysts argue that within some communities (they name the Central bank of Chile or an environmental NGO in Costa Rica or an alternative art space in Tokyo), there are preexisting ethnographic consciousness or curiousity (termed para-ethnography). They argue that these groups should be perceived as epistemic partners in collaborative ethnography (84).