Fieldnotes
From Intimate Impressions to Academic Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20039016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Treiber (0000-0002-8347-2972, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 217-232 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Multi-Sided Ethnographer (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Transcript Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.14361/9783839466773-013 |
| OpenAlex | W4396546944 |
| ISBN | 9783839466773 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In this article Magnus Treiber looks back into his own PhD research in Asmara, Eritrea, to illustrate and discuss the role of ethnographic fieldnotes and diaries. Accompanying our developing thoughts these show how anthropology's arguments are built on an empirical base. Beyond the immediate field situation, fieldnotes allow to reflect on the conditions under which anthropologists are learning and rationalise our attempts to understand. Diaries are inevitably fragmentary, grasping the ephemeral, open to whatever comes up. Thus, the diary becomes the cocoon for both product and process, the ethnography and the intellectual pathway towards it
Archaeology · Fieldnotes · Geography · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights
| Highly cited | No |
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