"At Home Camping on Shifting Sands": Lessons in Humility from Between Worlds

This personal narrative analyzes how the practice of intellectual humility can push the boundaries placed around the categories of home and field. I contend that scholars can conduct fieldwork in religion meaningfully by practicing intellectual humility with ourselves, with our interlocutors, and wi...

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Altri titoli:Special Issue: Shifting Sites, Shifting Selves: The Intersections of Homes and Fields in the Ethnography of India
Autore principale: Mamtora, Bhakti (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Equinox [2020]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Anno: 2020, Volume: 15, Fascicolo: 1/2, Pagine: 67-80
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Studioso di scienze religiose / Etnologo / Umiltà / Ricerca sul campo / Immagine di sé / Teoria / Pensiero critico / Prassi
Notazioni IxTheo:AA Scienze religiose
AD Sociologia delle religioni
KBM Asia
ZA Scienze sociali
Altre parole chiave:B Swaminarayan Sampraday
B Hybrid identity
B Swamini Vato
B Gujarat
B Swaminarayan
B intellectual humility
B HINDU TRADITIONS
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Riepilogo:This personal narrative analyzes how the practice of intellectual humility can push the boundaries placed around the categories of home and field. I contend that scholars can conduct fieldwork in religion meaningfully by practicing intellectual humility with ourselves, with our interlocutors, and within the academy. Humility with ourselves consists of practicing self-reflexivity and understanding our positionality and its connection to the field. Humility with our interlocutors requires listening to their voices and accepting that fieldwork is dictated by things that happen on the ground and not our neatly conceived plans. Humility in the academy entails an open-minded-ness to theorize about the field from within the field and not necessarily from within the confines of the academy. By practicing intellectual humility, one can begin to bridge the boundaries of home and field, self and other, and become attentive to new directions in academic research.
ISSN:1743-0623
Comprende:Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/firn.18352