An Archive of the Self: Or, What I Learned from Re-Reading Chats from the Field

This article considers how forms of technology and electronic communication - particularly email and online chats - both reflect and shape the selves of the field in relationship to the selves of home. It argues for recognizing and consciously cultivating the use of email and chat as a kind of "...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India
Main Author: Ortegren, Jennifer D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2020]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 15, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 126-138
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Women ethnologists / Self-image / Field-research / Scientific working habits / Communication / Social media
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBM Asia
ZA Social sciences
ZB Sociology
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Further subjects:B Fieldwork
B Ethnography
B Field
B Email
B Archive
B Selfhood
B Rajasthan
B Whatsapp
B India
B Stevens, John C.: Home
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