Field Impressions

Andy Fuller, Jolien van Veen

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Abstract

The Pandemic has disrupted one of the vital features of anthropological work: the very act of being there, being in amongst the circumstances one analyses describes and explores. Being there, over a period of time, facilitates insights and shifts in questions; it shapes narratives, terminology and creates access to unexpected informants. The fieldwork, the location, the site, also plays the often somewhat dislocated researcher who finds him or herself in amongst new communities and social circumstances. And, arguably, ethnography becomes a mutually creative act; between the researcher and informant and the resulting work is some kind of negotiation of questions, observations, sensory experiences and storytelling.

This is hopefully one of several interviews with SACRASEC members about their fieldwork experiences. Jolien, who had to go through a multi-layered bureaucratic process to finally get to Rio, generously shares her experiences and observations in the text below. The text originated from an email exchange between the authors, over the months February-March 2022.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherUtrecht University
Media of outputOnline
SizeBlog
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022

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