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Can I read The Incitement to Fieldwork on EtoBox?
The Incitement to Fieldwork by Ward Keeler is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Incitement to Fieldwork about?
Fieldwork necessarily causes some degree of psychological stress for an ethnographer, although the nature and consequences of such stress vary individually. Rather than lament or conceal that fact, I suggest that an ethnographer’s idiosyncratic responses can provide particular insights. To illustrate the point, I consider what might have induced me, and perhaps others, to take on the necessarily disorienting role of an ethnographer. I then contrast my experience (as a middle-aged Western anthropologist) of a meditation retreat in Burma with my experience (as a recently divorced bisexual man) of a naked men’s yoga retreat in Texas. These brief vignettes are intended to suggest that my specific personal conflicts alert me to matters of more general anthropological interest.
Who reads The Incitement to Fieldwork?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Ward Keeler
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books; University of Adelaide (ISSN 0155-977X)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences