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Spotting the fieldworker in the field

by lorenz on Aug 3, 2004 in Africa, fieldwork / methods, anthropology (general)

Gabriel Klaeger, eloweb.nl

While the ethnographic fieldworker is famous for producing countless photographic impressions of his own field, the documentary evidences of his presence and involvement in the research process are rather scarce. Hence, this ‘Cherchez le Chercheur’ series presents photographs which focus on one essential element of the fieldwork setting: the researcher himself.

The following pictures stem from my fieldwork project carried out in Kyebi (Akyem Abuakwa, Eastern Region/Ghana) in 2002. >>continue

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