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Fieldwork in Religion Pub Date : 2020-11-05 DOI:10.1558/FIRN.18349

A. Gold

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Abstract

During doctoral research in India, between June 1979 and March 1981, I wrote, often twice a week, to my mother, Ruth M. Grodzins, in Chicago. She saved these letters more or less in chronological order by attaching each one to a sheet of notebook paper in a bulging three-ring binder. Approximately forty years later I peruse them gingerly, with mixed feelings. Some of the letters’ content is nearly identical with the ethnographic writing that emerged from my first fieldwork and holds no surprises. Some of them recall fraught interpersonal hassles in all their immediate anguish. These later resolved themselves so thoroughly I totally forgot all about the incidents that, at the time, as evidenced in my letters and daily diary, had consumed me. However, to a retired anthropologist looking back on her first fieldwork, the best parts of these letters are their evocations of intensely experienced discoveries as well as of everyday pleasures, preoccupations and relationships.

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1979年6月至1981年3月，在印度做博士研究期间，我给住在芝加哥的母亲露丝·m·格罗津斯(Ruth M. Grodzins)写信，通常每周两次。她把这些信按时间顺序或多或少地保存下来，把每一封都夹在一张笔记本纸上，装在一个鼓鼓的三环活页夹里。大约四十年后，我怀着复杂的心情小心翼翼地阅读它们。一些信件的内容几乎与我第一次实地考察中出现的民族志写作相同，没有任何惊喜。他们中的一些人回忆起在他们所有的即时痛苦中令人担忧的人际纠纷。这些事情后来都彻底解决了，我完全忘记了当时在我的信件和日记中所记载的那些折磨我的事情。然而，对于一位退休的人类学家来说，回顾她的第一次田野调查，这些信件中最好的部分是它们唤起了强烈的经验发现，以及日常的快乐，关注和关系。

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Fieldwork in Religion RELIGION-

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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.