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New fieldwork blog: Struggling with antipathy for the field and "anthropology-fed-up-ness"

by lorenz on Oct 30, 2007 in religion cosmology, Asia, fieldwork / methods, websites

Norwegian anthropologist Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme has started blogging. He is currently on fieldwork in the Philippines among the Pentecostal Christians in Ifugao.

In his first two posts of his blog Jon Henrik in Ifugao, he describes parts of the fieldwork process that are familiar for most anthropologists but that rarely make it into papers or monograps: “anthropology-fed-up-ness” and antipathy for the field.

“Back in Ifugao, the first thing that struck me was that I was already tired of being here", he writes in his first post Chasing Ifugao Christians with a lack of motivation….

“One of the main impressions I had of my previous fieldwork was that this type of research is very inefficient. (…) Today I had such an experience again", he writes in his second post When the time is right…

>> visit Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme’s blog

For information on his first research project, see the project website.


SEE ALSO:

On fieldwork: “Blogging sharpens the attention”

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

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