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- Title
Old Fieldwork, New Ethnography: Taking the Stories Out of the Bag.
- Authors
Smith, Anne-Marie
- Abstract
During fieldwork for my PhD in Oaxaca, Mexico, a serendipitous encounter with a group of displaced Zapotec families triggered an emotional journey against the rules of the academy and an unwitting entrée into ethnographic writing. Via a multilayered text moving between memoir, poetry, and conversations, this retrospective telling of fieldwork reveals what the academic thesis kept hidden. Written a decade ago and stored in a bag, these stories have existed separately from the completed doctoral research, thus highlighting the apparent separateness between the heartfelt experiences of “doing fieldwork” and the academic requirements of “gathering data.”
- Subjects
MEXICO; ETHNOLOGY; THEORY of knowledge; QUALITATIVE research; MEMOIRS
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 5, p699
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077800413513729