Episodic fieldwork, updating, and sociability
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Episodic fieldwork, updating, and sociability. / Whyte, M.
I: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, Bind 57, Nr. 1, 01.01.2013, s. 110-121.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Episodic fieldwork, updating, and sociability
AU - Whyte, M.
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - In this article I explore links between fieldwork experience and different conceptions of time as they are encountered in what I term 'episodic fieldwork'. I use 'episodic' to emphasize the importance of absence and return for fieldwork relationships and the ethnographies that are founded on these relationships. I draw on Simmel's concept of sociability to explore the significance of the recurring updates that are so much a part of long-term and thus episodic fieldwork. Updating suggests participation, positionality, and transformation-as well as play and familiarity. The presumption of familiarity, which is at the heart of sociability, becomes a tool for exploring time and new social experiences and the ways in which chronology is interwoven with shifting social positions.
AB - In this article I explore links between fieldwork experience and different conceptions of time as they are encountered in what I term 'episodic fieldwork'. I use 'episodic' to emphasize the importance of absence and return for fieldwork relationships and the ethnographies that are founded on these relationships. I draw on Simmel's concept of sociability to explore the significance of the recurring updates that are so much a part of long-term and thus episodic fieldwork. Updating suggests participation, positionality, and transformation-as well as play and familiarity. The presumption of familiarity, which is at the heart of sociability, becomes a tool for exploring time and new social experiences and the ways in which chronology is interwoven with shifting social positions.
U2 - 10.3167/sa.2013.570108
DO - 10.3167/sa.2013.570108
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84879040613
VL - 57
SP - 110
EP - 121
JO - Social Analysis
JF - Social Analysis
SN - 0155-977X
IS - 1
ER -
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