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- Title
FROM BASEMENT TO DE-BASEMENT? A PROBING RESPONSE TO OPACITY.
- Authors
Spriggs, Hermione
- Abstract
The article explores the concept of opacity in basements and its implications for ethnographic research. The author challenges the idea that the role of the ethnographer is to bring objects and social relations in basements "to light," instead proposing opacity as a means of preserving diversity. The author suggests three lines of inquiry: recrafting participant observation as observer participancy, shifting towards sonic modes of encounter and description, and practicing an ethics of reciprocal debasement in ethnographic encounters. The article also discusses the tension between personal opacity and the researcher's responsibility to attend to the basements of others.
- Subjects
GAZE; BASEMENTS; SPACE probes; HIGGS bosons; FISHER information; SOIL composition
- Publication
Etnográfica: Revista do Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 1, p305
- ISSN
0873-6561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/etnografica.15789