Anthropological Fieldwork: A Debate Between Context and Text

Abstract

We the anthropologists use the term fieldwork for on-location research. Fieldwork is the most important method in the anthropological production of knowledge. It is through fieldwork that social-cultural anthropologists collect priman; information for the insights into the different topics of study like kinship, stratification, politic, religion etc. However, it can be said that a strained relationship exists between the representation of anthropological fieldwork and reality of any other disciplinan; fieldwork. To put in brief, fieldwork can take many forms. The multiple forms exist in a broader spectrum within the premise of social science. In the locale of interdisciplinan; approach of social science, the methodologt; of a particular discipline acts as a microcosm, be it Anthropologt; or Sociologt; or Economics or Political Science. The multiple forms of fieldwork take the shape of anthropologist's vision, project objectives and circumstance driven by disciplinan; methodology.