Original scientific paper
Domestic, one's own, and personal: auto-cultural defamiliarisation
Valentina Gulin Zrnić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3078-8033
; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagbreb, Croatia
Abstract
In this reflexive methodological and epistemological review, the author discusses the research in which the researcher almost entirely practically, contextually and cognitively participates in the field. It is a situation that mobilises the circumstances of the researcher's life into a scholarly-research enquiry. The author's field experience in studying an urban community is reconsidered within the concept of auto-anthropology. The concept is expounded through three key research auto-references: in relation to the discipline (the subject of research and the methodology); in relation to one's own (culture and society); and, in relation to the personal (autobiographical).
Keywords
auto-anthropology; anthropology of contemporaneity; methodology; Other and/or Proximate
Hrčak ID:
2919
URI
Publication date:
5.6.2005.
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