{"title":"Ethnographic Turning","authors":"Joanne Punzo Waghorne","doi":"10.1558/firn.18351","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ethnography is not native to my field of History of Religions. Here I reflect on my experience of a slow “ethnographic turn” in this field, where textual studies once dominated. Never trained in ethnographic methods, I recount my moves from experiencing archival work as fieldwork, then to the interviews and observations closer to “real” fieldwork, and finally to a self-centered experiential method that involves being there. At the same time, I transitioned from close work in Tamil Nadu, to the Hindu diaspora, and then to a new venue in global Singapore.","PeriodicalId":41468,"journal":{"name":"Fieldwork in Religion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fieldwork in Religion","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.18351","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ethnography is not native to my field of History of Religions. Here I reflect on my experience of a slow “ethnographic turn” in this field, where textual studies once dominated. Never trained in ethnographic methods, I recount my moves from experiencing archival work as fieldwork, then to the interviews and observations closer to “real” fieldwork, and finally to a self-centered experiential method that involves being there. At the same time, I transitioned from close work in Tamil Nadu, to the Hindu diaspora, and then to a new venue in global Singapore.
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Fieldwork in Religion (FIR) is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal seeking engagement between scholars carrying out empirical research in religion. It will consider articles from established scholars and research students. The purpose of Fieldwork in Religion is to promote critical investigation into all aspects of the empirical study of contemporary religion. The journal is interdisciplinary in that it is not limited to the fields of anthropology and ethnography. Fieldwork in Religion seeks to promote empirical study of religion in all disciplines: religious studies, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, psychology, folklore, or cultural studies. A further important aim of Fieldwork in Religion is to encourage the discussion of methodology in fieldwork either through discrete articles on issues of methodology or by publishing fieldwork case studies that include methodological challenges and the impact of methodology on the results of empirical research.
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