likely to want to learn about. Suppressing information about how the fieldwork encounter actually took place, this well-known critique asserts, dissembles the power imbalance between the anthropologist and his or her objects of study (cf. Clifford and
Research Methodology in Kurdish Studies
Interactions between Fieldwork, Epistemology and Theory
Mehmet Orhan
domination and legitimation in societies, likely resulting from the separate discussion of theory and observation (see Shil's foreword to Weber 1949 ). This problem has certainly lessened due to the development of methodological and fieldwork techniques
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–19
Traversing Fields
Affective Continuities across Muslim and Christian Settings in Berlin
Omar Kasmani and Dominik Mattes
settings in the same city? Or how, for that matter, through such joint labors, might we establish shared affective terrains and relations that would otherwise be implausible? With such questions at hand, we reflect on carrying out collaborative fieldwork
Fieldwork through the Zoomiverse
Sensing Uganda in a Time of Immobility
Richard Vokes and Gertrude Atukunda
’ many fieldwork visits to Uganda and, to a lesser extent, through Atukunda's research trips to Vokes’ home universities in (variously) the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. However, over time, the research engagement has also become
Fieldwork at sunset
Visual representations of anthropology online
Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Hannah Gould
methodology ( Morphy and Banks 1997 ), the camera remains an essential fieldwork tool, and “the field,” broadly conceived, is the substance of most photographs in our data set. “Seared with reality” ( Benjamin 1999: 512 ), field photographs evidence what
“Nothing Is Expensive, Everything Cheap, Nothing Explosive!”
Side Stories from Molenbeek, Brussels
Christine Moderbacher
conducted fieldwork for my PhD dissertation, “Crafting Lives in Brussels: Making and Mobility on the Margins.” Out of ten participants, it was these two middle-aged men from Tunisia and Guinea who were eager to tell me their stories. Since the end of our
Anthropology from Home
Advice on Digital Ethnography for the Pandemic Times
Magdalena Góralska
Being a digital anthropologist who studies health communication, I was immediately aware that the pandemic would make my fieldwork change rapidly. It has suddenly grown in size, intensified, and become more timely and of interest to broader
The Concept of the “Field” in Early Soviet Ethnography
A Northern Perspective
Dmitry V. Arzyutov and Sergei A. Kan
One of the fundamental principles of anthropology is that it is based on fieldwork. 1 It is the field that “helps define anthropology as a discipline in both senses of the word, constructing a space of possibilities while at the same time drawing
‘Life Is Tight Here’
Displacement and Desire amongst Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
Morgen A. Chalmiers
-making during my fieldwork, I came to see how such accounts emphasised not only the common structural barriers they must contend with as refugees but also a shared, embodied feeling of ‘tightness’ and stagnancy. But amidst these feelings of constriction
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- Research Article
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- 49–69
Nell Gabiam
as differences in the experiences of exile of both populations. Methods This article is based on five months of fieldwork conducted in the winter and spring of 2017 in Turkey (primarily in the cities of Istanbul and Gaziantep) that included
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
- Pages:
- 32–48