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Teren marzeń. Antropolog daleko w domu (przełożył Michał Żerkowski)
Field of dreams: An anthropologist far away at home

Author(s): JoAnn D'Alisera
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: fieldwork; anthropology at home; Sierra Leone; transmigrants; Islam; community

Summary/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.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 211-231
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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