Reflections on Fieldwork in Yemen
The Genealogy of a Diary in Response to Rabinow's Reflections of Fieldwork in Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12896271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Varisco (0000-0002-1307-7977, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-0719 • E-ISSN: 1746-0727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/174607106780586941 |
| OpenAlex | W2044887152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In preparation for writing an ethnographic monograph on fieldwork in Yemen, I compare and contrast my field diary, written in 1978–9, with Paul Rabinow’s Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (1977). The underlying question is what post-fieldwork reflections reflect meaningfully about the immediacy of ethnographic fieldwork? I criticise the reflexivist trope of privileging ‘writing culture’ over the significance of ‘being there’ in the field. Point by point, I examine the implications of graduate training in anthropology, culture shock, health problems, language skills, the unreflective male voice, visual ethnography and the rhetoric of narrative writing
Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Immediacy · Life writing · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Rhetoric · Sociology · Trope (literature · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |