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
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In Social Analysis
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 80–101 (22 total)
Picturesque Savagery on Display
Exhibition of Indigenous People, Science and Commerce in Argentina (1898–1904)
Diego Ballestero
structural advantages offered by urban spaces when conducting fieldwork. He was born in Posen in 1872. Between 1890 and 1896 he studied at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Munich. At Munich, he obtained his doctorates in philosophy (1894) and medicine
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Sep 2022
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- 65–88 (24 total)
Feelings in the Field
The Emotional Labour of the Ethnographer
Maria Concetta Lo Bosco
Ethnographic fieldwork has defined anthropology both as a discipline and practice ( Gupta and Ferguson 1997 ). It is broadly conceived as that unique and irreplaceable rite of passage which will ultimately turn an apprentice anthropologist in a
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2021
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Plans, Changes, Improvisations
Navigating Research on the Fertility Quests of Mozambican Women and Men
Inês Faria
In this article, I look at the pragmatics of the fieldwork process with a focus on my own personal experience. Rather than an analytical piece, as I have developed elsewhere ( Faria 2018 ), I opt here for a more descriptive and informal tone. I
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- 18–26 (9 total)
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
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 1–19 (19 total)
Chiara Cocco and Aleida Bertran
-running parallels between pilgrimage and fieldwork as transformative experiences for both the pilgrim and the researcher ( Helms 1988 ; Turner and Turner 1978 ). In this article we explore how the 2020 Festival of Sant'Efisio was moved from the streets to the
Staying Tuned
Connections beyond ‘the Field’
Geoffrey Hughes and Anna-Maria Walter
introduction of Internet-enabled electronic devices. 1 The generational shift that we are witnessing—before and after social media connectivity—has in turn profoundly transformed the experience of initiatory long-term fieldwork for the current cohort of
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
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 111–117 (7 total)
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
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- 73–78 (6 total)
Fieldwork at sunset
Visual representations of anthropology online
Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Hannah Gould
wavering course toward photography's embrace as 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