Breaking taboos: erotic subjectivity in fieldwork
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v12i12p41-56Keywords:
participant observation, ethics, erotic subjectivityAbstract
Evans-Pritchard receivedvaried advices before he started hisresearch among the Azande. Seligman’sadvice was to keep away from womenduring the fieldwork. More than 60years after his work was published inspite of all reflexivity brought intoparticipant-observation and productionof etnog raphies, Seligman’s adviceseems unquestioned, if not inanthropology’s everyday practice, atleast in the ethnographic writing. Inthis article, following Kulick andWillson’s criticism as to the absence ofdiscussion about fieldworkers’ eroticsubjectivity, I explore the impacts ofmy love relationship in my fieldwork,both in working out my identity for thegroup researched and to the resultingaccess to social spaces as well to thediscussion about ethic issues inanthropology.Downloads
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2004-03-30
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ROJO, L. F. (2004). Breaking taboos: erotic subjectivity in fieldwork. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 12(12), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v12i12p41-56