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Kisliuk Doing Fieldwork

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Kisliuk’s paper, “(Un)Doing Fieldwork: Sharing Songs, Sharing Lives” deconstructs the idea of writing fieldwork ethnography in favor of documenting field experience. Kisliuk begins defining “the field.” She feels that fieldwork might draw an ethnographer further away from real life, whereas field research or experience is more encompassing of the “vulnerability and responsibilities of human relationships” (Kisliuk 1996, p. 24). Kisliuk states that researchers in the field are constantly experiencing life and adapting to their environments and relationships with their participants. She provides an excerpt from her ethnographic research with the BaAka pygmies in the Central African Republic. She explains how much observing and adjusting she
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