Devotee/Ethnographer: My Struggle at the Boundary Walls of Participant Observation
This article demonstrates the difficulty of incorporating within the methodological ambit of ‘participant observation’, a possibility of the ethnographer herself staking claim in the religious truth claims of the community that constitute the subject of research. In so doing, this article provides a...
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2022
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Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 6 |
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Participant Observation
B Bhakti B autoethnography B Presence B Devotion |
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