Field of dreams: An anthropologist far away at home
Journal Title: Etnografia. Praktyki. Teorie. Doświadczenia / Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
The extent to which personal narrative is seen as a valid component of ethnography has been debated by generations of anthropologists. Critics contend that self-reflection trivializes the text, while supporters assert that self-reflection mediates contradictions between personal and scientific authority inherent in the discipline. Through such self-reflection and description, this essay challenges the basic fieldwork narrative in which notions of distance/nearness and foreign/native are imagined as bounded categories of experience.
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JoAnn D'Alisera Translated by Michał Żerkowski
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