Open AccessSade—‘By your side’
Author(s) -
Joy Owen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
suomen antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.141
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1799-8972
pISSN - 0355-3930
DOI - 10.30676/jfas.v43i2.77652
Subject(s) - normative , sociology , aesthetics , white (mutation) , psychoanalysis , psychology , epistemology , art , philosophy , gene , biochemistry , chemistry
With a reference to Sade's song, ‘By your side’, I work through the unexpected intimacies of fieldwork. I detail the subtle progression of my relationship with my primary interlocutors, and our morphing circumstances during fieldwork and beyond. Writing against the normative understanding of the 'omniscient, omnipotent, lone, white, male anthropologist' that caricatured my initial training in the discipline, Sade's song situates fieldwork moments, and life beyond fieldwork, squarely in the messy, turbulent nature of life.