Teren, wspólnota, etyka: w poszukiwaniu „właściwej” drogi w terenowych badaniach antropologicznych

• Authors: Tomasz Rakowski

Title variants

EN

Field, community, ethics: the search for an “appropriate” way of ethnographic fieldwork

Abstracts

EN

In this article, I elaborate on some ethical and methodological doubts that have emerged in the course of my ethnographic fieldwork. They relate to the process of constructing the field, moments of collective experimentation, and the process of developing long-term relationships between the ethnographer and his or her interlocutors. I show how the stage of constructing the field may be uncertain and contingent, yet at the same time crucial for understanding the studied phenomena. I then explain how some forms of closeness and friendship in the field may be also transform into common social and artistic projects. Finally, I reflect on deeper ethical tensions related to authorship and authorization during the writing-up stage of research. I argue that some forms of collaboration in the field lead both towards a form of shared authorship and to the necessity to make our interlocutors’ identity anonymous and invisible.

Keywords

EN

ethics; fieldwork; space; action research; interlocutors

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, Doświadczenia
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 253-264

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Tomasz Rakowski

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

Identifiers

DOI

10.26881/etno.2021.7.15

Biblioteka Nauki

2092105