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Anthropologist Cicilie Fagerlid is studying poetry slam in Paris and has become one of them she is studying as we see in the video of herself - the anthropologist as slammeuse. She seems to be in quite an intensive period of fieldwork and is wondering: Is "going native" part of the darker arts of fieldworkers’ repertoir?

She writes:

Both my fieldworks have been in environments close to my own interests. I could have been – and I surely would have loved to be – hanging around with policial activists in Brixton and mucisians in Tower Hamlets as well as slammeurs and slammeuses in Belleville, even without the excuse of doing fieldwork. Partly, I see this as a more honest anthropology as it is entirely based on the idea of an anthropology without radical difference, and more so, I don’t have to fake or hide anything – not what kind of information I’m looking for, neither my political views, my artistic interests and my way of life in any sense. On the other hand, as I’ve found myself asking the last week; what if I’m faking it all (so well that I believe it myself!), getting access through this perhaps naïve enthusiasm.

>> read the whole article in her blog

SEE ALSO:

Panic, joy and tears during fieldwork: Anthropology Matters 1/2007 about emotions

Fieldblogging from Nicaragua - reading anthropology is something totally different than DOING anthropology.

Paper by Erkan Saka: Blogging as a Research Tool for Ethnographic Fieldwork

Doing Fieldwork Among Poets and Rebels in Paris - Interview with Cicilie Fagerlid