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Mathur, Chandana (2006) A Passage to Indiana: Reflections on Fieldwork in a Reverse Direction. Indian Folklife (23). pp. 21-22. ISSN 0972-6470
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Abstract
My two years (1989-91) of dissertation fieldwork
were spent in Southern Indiana in a small town
located near the flagship plant of a major
multinational corporation, the Aluminium Company of
America (Alcoa). As an Indian woman anthropologist
whose work centres on mainstream American culture, I
have become well used to the inevitable amused chuckle
drawn by this disclosure. Any exploration of the
intentions underlying the project, of the fieldwork
experience itself, of the particular difficulties involved
in writing about it, and (most pertinently for this
collection) of the residues remaining, however, requires
reaching beyond the cheap paradox element of this
fieldwork encounter.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Fieldwork; Anthropology; United States; Western societies; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology |
| Item ID: | 2973 |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Chandana Mathur |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2012 16:50 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Indian Folklife |
| Publisher: | National Folklore Support Centre |
| Refereed: | No |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/2973 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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