Reflexive ethnography as a tool in researching Hungarian Krishna devotees reflections on the margin of a long-term fieldwork among the Hungarian Community of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math
The paper deals with some aspects of reflexive fieldwork by analysing the author's Couchsurfing experience in Brno during the workshop "Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions after Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism". The experience is interpreted as a field situati...
| Published in: | Sacra |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Czech |
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Masarykova Univ.
2012
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Sacra
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| Further subjects: | B
Krishna devotees
B Fieldwork B Cultural Anthropology B reflexive ethnography B Postmodern |
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| Summary: | The paper deals with some aspects of reflexive fieldwork by analysing the author's Couchsurfing experience in Brno during the workshop "Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions after Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism". The experience is interpreted as a field situation and the author is regarded as an ethnographer. The author's modes and codes of behaviour are being scrutinized in a reflexive way. The situation and its reflexive analysis can throw light upon certain modes of fieldwork practices which stayed unnoticed during real field situations among a certain group of Hungarian Krishna devotees; the Hungarian Community of Sri Chaitnya Saraswat Math. Making these actions of the researcher conscious may help producing more honest and sensitive ethnographies and may offer a deeper insight into the complex nature of ethnographic fieldwork. In addition, the experience can be useful in my research among Krishna devotees. |
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| ISSN: | 2336-4483 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacra
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: handle:11222.digilib/127319 |