Key Concepts in Ethnography by Karen O'Reilly

Author:Karen O'Reilly [O'Reilly, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781412928656
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2008-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

The ethnographer takes his or her informal and formal training and theoretical perspectives into the field. During and after the fieldwork, he/she will write and thereby gain emotional and mental distance. Even physical distancing may occur at the end of the fieldwork period, as the researcher returns to university or work.

The mirror of fieldwork

Kirsten Hastrup (1987) says fieldwork is like looking in a mirror at what is going on around you. In the mirror of fieldwork you see yourself at the same time as you see others. You are both subject and object. The ethnographer, like the mirror, she argues is a third-person character, neither you nor I. He or she lives in the third person, and is a friend to the locals and a stranger to herself.

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