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Learning About Local Culture to Research Developing Markets: How I Rediscovered the Importance of Lakou in Haiti

By Howard Jean-Denis

This auto-ethnographic essay demonstrates the relationship between cultural identity and research design for scholars exploring developing market contexts. The author provides a reflexive account of the Haitian concept of Lakou and how scholars can center the indigenous values of locals when they engage in field research.

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