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To examine how an ethnographer's personal identity, physical embodiment, and emotional experiences influence the process and textual representation of qualitative fieldwork.

March 1, 2001Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity

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To examine how an ethnographer's personal identity, physical embodiment, and emotional experiences influence the process and textual representation of qualitative fieldwork.
Conceptual and methodological analysis of qualitative fieldwork practices across social anthropology and sociology.
Thematic exploration of personal relationships, sexuality, bodily presence, and narrative representation in ethnographic accounts.
Fieldwork fundamentally operates as an embodied and relational practice where the researcher's self-concept actively constructs research boundaries and interpersonal dynamics.
Textual representations in ethnography inevitably reflect the ethnographer's emotional, sexual, and biographical commitments rather than detached observation.

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Methodological review uncovers how researcher identity and embodiment shape fieldwork practices, highlighting the personal dimensions of qualitative inquiry.

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Introduction Locating the Self The Interpersonal Field The Embodiment of Fieldwork The Sex(ual) Field Romancing the Field Writing the Self (Re)Presenting the Field Consequences and Commitments

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Gubrium et al. (2001) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0e97b027a8fd07fe043fbc https://doi.org/10.2307/2655440

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Implication

Methodological review uncovers how researcher identity and embodiment shape fieldwork practices, highlighting the personal dimensions of qualitative inquiry.

Abstract

Introduction Locating the Self The Interpersonal Field The Embodiment of Fieldwork The Sex(ual) Field Romancing the Field Writing the Self (Re)Presenting the Field Consequences and Commitments

The Ethnographic Self: Fieldwork and the Representation of Identity

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