Two commonly articulated goals of engaged anthropology include: 1) creating equal power relations with research participants; and 2) producing scholarship that critiques inequality. Though these seem commensurate, this article discusses how working toward both goals can lead to conflict when collaborators vehemently disagree with the critical aspects of your research findings. This article argues that writing about the ethnographic backstage — the background negotiations that rarely make it to the printed page — can help engaged anthropologists foster more egalitarian relations when it comes to ethnographic representation and can sharpen our sociocultural critiques. Because engaged anthropology, by definition, is shaped by negotiations with research participants, examining the ethnographic backstage helps us better understand an important axis in the production of anthropological knowledge.

从事人类学的两个通常明确的目标包括：1）与研究参与者建立平等的权力关系；2）产生批评不平等的奖学金。尽管这些看似相称，但本文讨论了当合作者强烈不同意您的研究发现的关键方面时，朝着两个目标努力将如何导致冲突。本文认为，关于人种学背景知识的背景讨论很少会写在印刷版上，这可以帮助参与的人类学家在人种学表现形式上建立起更加平等的关系，并可以加强我们对社会文化的批评。因为从定义上讲，从事人类学是与研究参与者进行谈判而形成的，