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9780470766330

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470766330

  • ISBN10:

    0470766336

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-06-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword: In the Shadows: Anthropological Encounters with Modernity
Introduction: 'Learn to Value your Shadow!': An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork
Secrecy and Silence in the Ethnographic Encounter
Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives as Intimate Ethnography
When Things Get Personal: Secrecy and the Production of Experience in Fieldwork
Transmutations of Experience: Approaching the Reality of Shadows
The Scene Shadowing the Real
Transmutation of Sensibilities: Empathy, Intuition, Revelation
Epistemic Shadows
Shining a Light into the Shadow of Death: Terminal Care Discourse and Practice in the Late Twentieth Century
The Hidden Side of the Moon or, 'Lifting Out' in Ethnography
The Politics of Ethnographic Encounter: Negotiating Power in the Shadow
The Gray Zone
Others within Us: Collective Identity, Positioning and Displacement
Falling into Fieldwork: Lessons from a Desperate Search for Survival
Blurred Borders in the Ethnographic Encounter of Self and Other
Field Research on the Run: One More (from) for the Road
Intimate Travels through Otherness
When the Border of Research and Personal Life become Blurred: Thorny Issues in Conducting Dementia Research
Index
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