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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Equinox
[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 (social sciences) (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 Diaspora (social sciences) B autoethnography B history of religions B Madras |
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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 |