As anthropology’s
student we have to do a lot of fieldwork. In my personal experience I’ve
visited many placed, for example, in urban anthropology I went to Bajos de
Mena, a suburb in Puente Alto, described as the most dangerous place in
Santiago and in rural anthropology, I visited Llallauquén, a little town placed
on the shores of Rapel’s lake. In Ethnography I went to El Golf neighborhood
and I made ethnography about Plaza Perú, a very interesting square where many Peruvian
maids gathered together. Finally, for Qualitative Methodology, I visited Lastarria
neighborhood, a place in the core of Santiago, well known for everyone in city.
This was very
interesting, because –as I said- a well-known place means you need to clear
your mind and think about it as you have never visited before. Like a tourist. One
of the problems of visiting a neighborhood like Lastarria is that everyone
wants to tell you the marvelous things about it, but you want to know the problems,
something interesting to study in. A hard thing to do in there was to make
older people to trust in you, and in Lastarria many people was very old.
But one of the
good things is to know what people things about themselves, but this is maybe
the best thing in every fieldwork you made.
Indeed, I think the most difficult part of the fieldwork is to observe something as if you had never see it before. Sometimes, I still can't do that :P
ResponderEliminarCheers!
It's funny how we must pretend we haven't gone before
ResponderEliminarYes, is very difficult to do fieldwork when people don't trust in you xD but is not impossible...
ResponderEliminarGoodbye c:
That entertainig! I would like I had more fielwork
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