Ethnographic Turning
Ethnography is not native to my field of History of Religions. Here I reflect on my experience of a slow "ethnographic turn" in this field, where textual studies once dominated. Never trained in eth-nographic methods, I recount my moves from experiencing archival work as fieldwork, then to...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[2020]
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| In: |
Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 53-66 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Woman religious studies scholar
/ Cultural turn
/ Field-research
/ Hinduism
/ Diaspora (Religion)
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia ZA Social sciences |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Singapore B Chennai B autoethnography B Diaspora B history of religions B Madras |
| Online Access: |
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| Summary: | Ethnography is not native to my field of History of Religions. Here I reflect on my experience of a slow "ethnographic turn" in this field, where textual studies once dominated. Never trained in eth-nographic methods, I recount my moves from experiencing archival work as fieldwork, then to the interviews and observations closer to "real" fieldwork, and finally to a self-centered experiential method that involves being there. At the same time, I transitioned from close work in Tamil Nadu, to the Hindu diaspora, and then to a new venue in global Singapor. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-0623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/firn.18351 |
