Understanding Positionality of the Dalit Female Researcher in Urban Fieldwork – Priyanka Mokale
Positionality plays a crucial role in research and varies over time. Convincing and demonstrating your social identity as a researcher…
Mirror, Mirror in the Field: Some Reflections on Ethnography – Apeksha Srivastava
Ethnography is a branch of anthropology that explores culture, groups, settings, and other contexts from the viewpoints of the people…
Institutionalised Cultural Capital in Practice: A Fieldwork Perspective – Amit Yadav and Debashis Pattanaik
Pierre Bourdieu conceptualised cultural capital as a crucial factor in social stratification, shaping access to opportunities and social mobility. There…
The Woman with a Camera in the Field: Moving Images, Narratives and Visual Ethnography – Aiswarya P Raj
“I’m just a paavam[1]small-town wedding shooter, ain’t got no interesting life stories to share with you that’d be worth snappin’…
Doing Academics: Interpreting Realities, Experiences And Emotion In Fieldwork – Akanksha Sanil
Fieldwork is a crucial element for doing original research, more commonly in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and economics within…
You Are Not An ‘Ideal’ Brahmin: A Reflexive Note – Bhawesh Pant
Recent socio-anthropological studies have made the concept of reflexivity (Wilson & Karliova, 2021) apparent by drawing attention to researchers’ inter-subjective…
Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography Through Fieldwork Devices edited by Adolfo Estalella and Tomas Sanchez Criado (2018): A Review by Priyanka Borpujari
Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography Through Fieldwork Devices edited by Adolfo Estalella and Tomas Sanchez Criado (published by Berghahn Books in 2018)…
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (2022): A Review by Ashwin Tripathi
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (published by Berghahn…
Homelessness and Shelter Houses: Some Insights from the Field in Odisha – Itimayee Behera
Introduction This essay is based on the field work done in Cuttack district, Odisha in the year 2020 on a…
Women in the Field: Gendered Challenges and Dilemmas of Ethnographic Fieldwork – Ruchika Ranwa
Fieldwork, as a static process, has been questioned in the existing debates on ethnography. Field is often changing, unpredictable and…