Poetic Arrivals and Departures: Bodying the Ethnographic Field in Verse

Abstract: For decades, social research has engaged the "linguistic turn," which was considered revolutionary in the ways that scholars began to reframe reality, knowledge, and representation. Among ethnographers, this turn was robustly embraced, especially at the level of intersubjectivity, reflexivity, and positionality in field practices. More recently, the performance paradigm reframed the field, the ethnographer, and her participants as embodied persons and places with bodied terrains and topographies. In my recent ethnographic life history study about Indian women's experiences in Hindu arranged marriages, I entered my field equipped theoretically with some knowledge of and keen awareness about the positional and performative contingencies that would unravel in the field because I was working with women who had made very disparate choices from my own. However, when it arrived, my own crisis of representation was material, textual, epistemological, and theoretical. My experiences in the .... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/382

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Poetic Arrivals and Departures: Bodying the Ethnographic Field in Verse ; volume:9 ; number:2 ; day:31 ; month:05 ; year:2008 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 9, Heft 2 (31.05.2008)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Chawla, Devika

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-9.2.382
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802248
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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