Fieldwork’s Return: Troubled Steps Towards A Multispecies Imaginary
For many anthropologists, longterm ethnographic fieldwork does not end when they leave the field, as the journey towards ethnographic understanding evolves for years after physically returning from the field. In an auto-ethnographic mode, this paper traces the author’s return journey from the field,...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Taylor & Francis
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Material religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 16, Numéro: 4, Pages: 491-509 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Nishi
/ Croyance aux esprits
/ L’inquiétante étrangeté
/ Recherche sur le terrain
/ Observation participante
/ Être humain
/ Être surnaturel
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| RelBib Classification: | AF Géographie religieuse AG Vie religieuse BB Religions traditionnelles ou tribales BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Fieldwork
B Participant Observation B redemptive symmetry B Spirits B multispecies imaginary B Conservation B rites of passage |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | For many anthropologists, longterm ethnographic fieldwork does not end when they leave the field, as the journey towards ethnographic understanding evolves for years after physically returning from the field. In an auto-ethnographic mode, this paper traces the author’s return journey from the field, through transformations in their understanding of soul abduction and spirit-revenge among upland members of the Nyishi tribe in the Eastern Himalayas. The paper traces the author’s journey from initial ontological immersion in fieldwork materials, through a reductionist withdrawal from the data, to the “redemptive symmetry” of a multispecies approach: one which recognizes the human and more-than-human origins of such spirit phenomena. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2020.1794591 |