
Wdowy, polityczki, feministki i ja. Esej o antropologii na rogu ulicy
Author(s) -
Natalia Bloch
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
etnografia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-9537
pISSN - 2392-0971
DOI - 10.26881/etno.2021.7.13
Subject(s) - caste , ethnography , gender studies , inscribed figure , sociology , agency (philosophy) , ethnic group , power (physics) , field research , field (mathematics) , anthropology , social science , political science , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , law
In the article, I tell the stories of a few female research partners of mine, who accompanied me during ethnographic fieldwork on forced displacement at the UNESCO World Heritage site in Hampi, India. These women differed in every respect: their ethnic origin and caste, religious affiliation, age, marriage status, social position, level of education, and person- ality. What they had in common was their agency in challenging social expectations and an extraordinary capability to be resilient. I scrutinize my close, albeit not always easy relationships with them, the process of rapport-building in the field, the power relations inscribed in ethnographic research and my own changing positionality vis-a-vis women from my street in Hampi.