When a contemporary qualitative researcher says that some ethnographers "threw themselves into the well of subjectivity" he means that:

A. They wrote primarily about themselves.
B. They became excessively self-scrutinizing and reflexive.
C. They gave up the project of developing an external, objective understanding of cultures.
D. They wrote about how they do ethnography rather than about the cultures they study.
E. All of the above.


E

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