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Some Thoughts on Ethnographic Fieldwork and Photography

Barbara Turk Niskač orcid.org/0000-0002-9228-7218 ; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

Drawing on the existing documenting parallels between ethnographic fieldwork and photography, the paper discusses dilemmas connected to the relationship between the ethnographer and his research participants. The paper argues that the ideas of sensory ethnography and arts practices, as well as a reflexive approach to visual anthropology, especially collaborative and participatory methods, could prove useful in transcending boundaries between the researcher and research participants. Furthermore, the experience of taking pictures might help us towards a better understanding of ethnographic fieldwork. For this purpose, the paper offers an analysis of a number of photographs.

Keywords

photography; sensory ethnography; visual anthropology

Hrčak ID:

74744

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/74744

Publication date:

8.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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