Naslov
Foregrounding the self in fieldwork among rural women in Croatia

Autori
Šikić-Mićanović, Lynette

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The ethnographic self as resource: Writing memory and experience into ethnography

Urednik/ci
Collins, Peter ; Gallinat, Anselma

Izdavač
Berghahn Books

Grad
New York (NY) : Oxford

Godina
2010

Raspon stranica
45-62

ISBN
978-1-84545-656-6

Ključne riječi
reflexivity, (ethnographic) self, positionality, rapport, dilemmas.

Sažetak
This chapter shows how personal experiences in the field are an important and accessible source of ethnographic data and for this reason the researcher should not be rendered invisible in the ethnography but rather foregrounded as an embodied, situated and subjective self. Fieldwork for this study was among both women and men in six rural villages in Slavonia, in the county of Vukovar-Sirmium, Croatia. The chapter covers the author’s positionality and research orientations as well as access, rapport, research dilemmas and challenges in the field. The author concludes that our personal experiences and memories as well as our temperaments and personalities inevitably influence our choice of research sites, themes, design and theoretical approaches. Further, all that constitutes the self has a further impact on research relations and interactions (access) in the field where new knowledge is created, shaped and negotiated.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

POVEZANOST RADA