Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury
In this article I am going to analyse my experiences of fieldwork and discuss the role of the researcher in the process of data collection. I will approach problems arising during folkloristic fieldwork and the focus will be on researching belief narrative in personal experience stories. A lot has b...
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| description | In this article I am going to analyse my experiences of fieldwork and discuss the role of the researcher in the process of data collection. I will approach problems arising during folkloristic fieldwork and the focus will be on researching belief narrative in personal experience stories. A lot has been written about fieldwork and in this article I am going to add my thoughts on topics that have already been discussed in self-critical reflexive style by several scholars: the different roles of the researcher and the problematic interactional relationship between researcher and informant; power relationships in an interview situation; combining emic and etic perspectives in researching; being ambivalent about which reality we really belong to. I am also going to raise some issues that have to date not been discussed much: the effect of the researcher’s gender on the process of fieldwork; stigmatisation of the supernatural; using the researcher’s own memorates to elicit belief statements from his or her informants; dealing with ‘difficult’ informants. Against the background of the above-mentioned topics lies the liminality of the researcher – while in the field we are in a state of liminality that Victor Turner described when talking about pilgrims and neophytes.
Apart from discussing fieldwork-related problems, I am also going to describe some expressions of vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-44d666518346498294f8ae744a042c5b2025-02-02T19:48:18ZengSciendoJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics1736-65182228-09872013-01-0162294889Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in GlastonburyTiina Sepp0PhD student at the University of TartuIn this article I am going to analyse my experiences of fieldwork and discuss the role of the researcher in the process of data collection. I will approach problems arising during folkloristic fieldwork and the focus will be on researching belief narrative in personal experience stories. A lot has been written about fieldwork and in this article I am going to add my thoughts on topics that have already been discussed in self-critical reflexive style by several scholars: the different roles of the researcher and the problematic interactional relationship between researcher and informant; power relationships in an interview situation; combining emic and etic perspectives in researching; being ambivalent about which reality we really belong to. I am also going to raise some issues that have to date not been discussed much: the effect of the researcher’s gender on the process of fieldwork; stigmatisation of the supernatural; using the researcher’s own memorates to elicit belief statements from his or her informants; dealing with ‘difficult’ informants. Against the background of the above-mentioned topics lies the liminality of the researcher – while in the field we are in a state of liminality that Victor Turner described when talking about pilgrims and neophytes. Apart from discussing fieldwork-related problems, I am also going to describe some expressions of vernacular religion and contemporary spirituality on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury.https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/97liminality of researcherstigmatisation of the supernaturalgendered fieldworkCamino de SantiagoGlastonbury |
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| title | Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury |
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| title_short | Interview as an Act of Seduction: Analysing Problems I Have Met during My Fieldwork on the Camino de Santiago and in Glastonbury |
| title_sort | interview as an act of seduction analysing problems i have met during my fieldwork on the camino de santiago and in glastonbury |
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