Chapter 2. When Things Get Personal: Secrecy, Intimacy, and the Production of Experience in Fieldwork
- Athena McLean,
- Annette Leibing
Published Online: 17 MAR 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692455.ch2
Copyright © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders Between Ethnography and Life
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How to Cite
Lovell, A. M. (2008) When Things Get Personal: Secrecy, Intimacy, and the Production of Experience in Fieldwork, in The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders Between Ethnography and Life (eds A. McLean and A. Leibing), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470692455.ch2
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 MAR 2008
- Published Print: 9 AUG 2007
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405161305
Online ISBN: 9780470692455
- Summary
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Keywords:
- secrecy;
- intimacy;
- ethnographical writing;
- rituals;
- social relations
Summary
This chapter contains section titled:
The Coordinates of the Personal: Secrecy, Discretion, Intimacy
The Dialectic of Self-Revelation
Distance, Discretion and the Construction of the Personal
The Social Sources of Secrecy
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References