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Forbidden Fieldwork: The Affair as Research Method
Author(s) -
Rice Kathleen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12258
Subject(s) - silence , credibility , field (mathematics) , action research , sociology , action (physics) , field research , reflection (computer programming) , grounded theory , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , media studies , pedagogy , qualitative research , social science , aesthetics , art , philosophy , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , computer science , pure mathematics , programming language
Summary This creative nonfiction essay is both a reflection about a complex intimate relationship that developed during doctoral fieldwork and a commentary on what anthropologists are socialized to compartmentalize, silence, and refuse for the sake of academic credibility. Grounded in the author’s personal experience of having an affair in the field, it explains that pursing a course of action that the author was trained and socialized to eschew had the unexpected outcome of advancing the author’s anthropological research.