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Fieldwork: The Dance of Power
Author(s) -
Tehindrazanarivelo Emmanuel D.
Publication year - 1997
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 - 10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.54
Subject(s) - positivism , narrative , dance , subject (documents) , object (grammar) , power (physics) , sociology , lived experience , aesthetics , epistemology , psychology , visual arts , literature , psychoanalysis , art , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , library science , physics , quantum mechanics
I make no pretense to be a positivist writer. Nor do I claim to be writing a rational and objective narrative, lam trying to understand what it means to do fieldwork and to be a subject of fieldwork. My writing is rooted in the experience of being both a researcher and the object of research. It deals with issues of how truth is seen, perceived, lived, and told; how experiences are translated from lived reality to discursive thought. These are questions I wrestle with constantly.