Participant Observation: Embodied Insights, Challenges, Best Practices and Looking to the Future

This article reflects on the method of participant observation (PO) and how the author has interpreted and practiced it throughout her career as an anthropologist of religion. The article concentrates on the embodied insights afforded by PO, as well as the physical, existential and ontological chall...

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Otros títulos:"Special Issue: Critical Terms for the Ethnography of Religion"
Autor principal: Nabhan-Warren, Kristy ca. 20./21. Jh. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Equinox 2022
En: Fieldwork in religion
Año: 2022, Volumen: 17, Número: 1, Páginas: 26-36
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Observación participante / Etnología / Investigación de campo / Método / Ciencias de la religión
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AA Ciencias de la religión
ZA Ciencias sociales
Otras palabras clave:B Fieldwork
B Participant Observation
B interlocutors
B embodied methods
B Ethnographic Methods
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Sumario:This article reflects on the method of participant observation (PO) and how the author has interpreted and practiced it throughout her career as an anthropologist of religion. The article concentrates on the embodied insights afforded by PO, as well as the physical, existential and ontological challenges of the PO method. The author shares examples from her own PO experiences and recommends best practices as well as some ideas for improvement. The challenges of conducting PO during an ongoing pandemic, and some lessons that may have been learned, are considered. The article ends with a brief reflection on the future of participation observation and what the pandemic has taught about what it means to be anthropologists.
ISSN:1743-0623
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Fieldwork in religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/firn.22582