"Hot" Gifts

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"Hot" Gifts

What is this about?

A researcher in an urban ghetto is offered some stolen goods as a gift. Accepting or not accepting the goods has implications for the researcher's integration into the community she is studying. She accepts the stolen clothes but not the record player.

For whom is this important?

ResearchersEthnographers

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Where

• North America

Virtues & Values

• Respect

Good Practices & Misconduct

• Dishonesty

Research Area

• SH - Social Sciences and Humanities