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来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.46,Issue3,P.263-284

语言

英文

关键字

Comparison; partial connections; juxtaposition; reflexivity; Roma; KNOWLEDGE

作者单位

[Picker, Giovanni] Cent European Univ, Inst Adv Study, Sociol, Nador Utca 13, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary. Picker, G (reprint author), Cent European Univ, Inst Adv Study, Sociol, Nador Utca 13, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary. E-Mail: pickerg@ceu.hu

摘要

In this article I show that the ethnographer can be a heuristic source of comparison. I reflexively discuss the ways in which I learnt from the problems behind my comparative ethnography of everyday representations of Roma in both a Romanian and an Italian city. As a priori detecting a homogeneous group called Roma in Europe can be problematic, my comparison lacked the necessary condition of similarity between the two contexts. Once I came back from the field, I understood how my differently perceived selves influenced my informants' articulations of their own representations of local Roma. This and further observations made me understand that I had not carried out a comparison; rather, I established a series of partial connections through juxtaposition. In the Conclusion, I encourage more reflexive research on the heuristic validity of taking ourselves-ethnographers as heuristic units of comparison.