Original scientific paper

"EXPERIMENTAL" ETHNICITY: MEETINGS IN THE DIASPORA

Maja Povrzanović Frykman ; International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

Abstract

Methodological pragmatism is more often than not employed in
ethnographic enterprises, but not often discussed. Claiming that
methodological discussions are most fruitful when referring to
concrete research topics and the researcher's dilemmas in the field,
the author discusses pragmatic uses of her own self in constructing
the field. Referring primarily to the shared ethnicity as the
"experimental arena", she proposes an evaluation of the heuristic
potentials of her meetings with people in diasporic contexts, and
reveals some of the fieldwork situations important for gaining
ethnological insights.

Keywords

ethnography; fieldwork; diaspora; ethnicity

Hrčak ID:

24611

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24611

Publication date:

23.6.2004.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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