The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life

The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and Life
ISBN-10
0470766336
ISBN-13
9780470766330
Category
Social Science
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2008-04-15
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Annette Leibing, Athena McLean

Description

The Shadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research. Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter Considers personal and professional challenges (ethical, epistemological, and political) faced by researchers who examine the subjectivities inherent in their ethnographic insights Explores the value, and limitations, of addressing the personal in ethnographic research Includes a critical discussion of the anthropologist’s self in the field Introduces imaginative rigor to ethnographic research to heighten confidence in anthropological knowledge

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