On the possibility of transmitting the fieldwork experience: Presentation of the meta-methodological conditions of the transitional fieldwork

Abstract

Without any intention to synthesize the broader theoretical discussions about the problem, I shall herein try to outline the boundaries of “the fieldwork”, as an implied, disputed, but also inevitable ethnologic scientific practice. This will be done in a concise and critical manner, within the contexts implied in various ways by “domestic ethnologies”. Particular attention will be devoted to the points where its unavoidable limitations mutate into strategies of manipulating the knowledge and/or academic power.

Keywords

• Fieldwork
• theory
• hierarchy of knowledge