In his research, the ethnographer Richard Mitchell kept his identity a secret while studying militant survivalist groups. Sometimes he even presented himself as a believer in the survivalists’ paranoid, racist ideologies. By engaging in such covert research, with what was Mitchell concerned?
If I was in Mitchell's shoes, I would mainly be concerned with how to leave the groups once my research was done, and I would also be concerned with keeping my identity a secret, as if the group found out, I may be mince meat.
