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The Incitement to Fieldwork |
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Keeler, Ward (著)
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| Source |
Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology
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| Volume | v.64 n.1 Spring |
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| Date | 2020 |
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| Pages | 80 - 101 |
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| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
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http://www.berghahnbooks.com/
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| Location | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, USA. |
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| Keyword | Burma; fieldwork; meditation; reflexivity; sexuality |
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| Abstract | Fieldwork necessarily causes some degree of psychological stress for an ethnographer, although the nature and consequences of such stress vary individually. Rather than lament or conceal that fact, I suggest that an ethnographer’s idiosyncratic responses can provide particular insights. To illustrate the point, I consider what might have induced me, and perhaps others, to take on the necessarily disorienting role of an ethnographer. I then contrast my experience (as a middle-aged Western anthropologist) of a meditation retreat in Burma with my experience (as a recently divorced bisexual man) of a naked men’s yoga retreat in Texas. These brief vignettes are intended to suggest that my specific personal conflicts alert me to matters of more general anthropological interest. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 80
Keywords 80
Language Study as Fieldwork Mock-Up 82
Fieldwork’s Trials, and My Own 83
A Viscous Self 84
Ethnographic Encounters 86
A Buddhist Meditation Retreat 86
A Men’s Naked Yoga Retreat 90
Autonomy, Attachment, and Sex 93
Autoethnography and Me 94
Conclusion: The Psyche as Baggage or Tool 95
Acknowledgments 97
Notes 98
References 100 |
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| ISSN | 0155977X (P); 15585727 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.3167/sa.2020.640105 |
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| Hits | 92 |
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| Created date | 2024.06.20 |
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| Modified date | 2024.06.24 |
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