„NEMOHU JE KLAMAT?“: KONSTRUKCE OBRAZU BADATELE V TERÉNU

• Authors: Polouček Oto

Title variants

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Can’t I deceive them?“: framing of researcher’s image in fieldwork

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Researcher meets different situations depending from specifics of his field of interest during implementation of transparent qualitative research. Various societies or subcultures with their own standards and customs can react differently when facing research interest and perceive as important different aspects of mutual communication, possibly not previously seen by researcher. During process of shaping terrain/researcher relations both involved sides constructing image of the other on basis of their own ideas and interpretations coming from environment, from which they come and are involved by. The article based on author ś own oral history research in community of tramps from Brno deals with possibilities of formation of constructed images about researcher, which could significantly involve content of realized interviews. Principles and recommendations of oral history research along with standards based on qualitative research codes of ethics can produce a lot of inspiration for field research in sensitive environments, but also can create some ethical dilemma depending from efforts to balance between research transparencies and endeavour to create the best atmosphere for realizing research. The efforts to “impress” do not mislead ourselves and also don't lose access to narrators. In the article he is analysing assumptions for creating the situation, which he meets during “defining positions” and “looking for understanding” in his research.

Keywords

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RESEARCHER; FIELDWORK; ETHICS; ORAL HISTORY; CZECH REPUBLIC

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23 - 35

Contributors

author

Polouček Oto

• Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Ústav evropské etnologie, Jaselská 18, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic