{"title":"Ambivalent Belonging in the Fields of Home","authors":"Shana L. Sippy","doi":"10.1558/FIRN.18353","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Through telling the interconnected stories of three women (the author, her grandmother, and her interlocutor, a leader in a temple community), this article explores the complicated dynamics that can occur when one’s field is both one’s home and not one’s home. Specifically, it explores the ways in which being an American scholar of Indian descent who studies the Hindu diaspora can shed light on the gendered dynamics of belonging, authority, autonomy and authenticity in the field and at home. Ultimately, the article suggests that a scholarly approach of ambivalent belonging that eschews the normative boundaries between home and field, the personal and the scholarly, provides an ethical framework for research and writing.","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.18353","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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Through telling the interconnected stories of three women (the author, her grandmother, and her interlocutor, a leader in a temple community), this article explores the complicated dynamics that can occur when one’s field is both one’s home and not one’s home. Specifically, it explores the ways in which being an American scholar of Indian descent who studies the Hindu diaspora can shed light on the gendered dynamics of belonging, authority, autonomy and authenticity in the field and at home. Ultimately, the article suggests that a scholarly approach of ambivalent belonging that eschews the normative boundaries between home and field, the personal and the scholarly, provides an ethical framework for research and writing.
期刊介绍：
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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