Summary, Quotes, and Questions
Buckley (1994) looks inward at the effects of field work on neophyte anthropologists. This piece is premised on the idea of the anthropologist entering a completely foreign environment, where they are forced to look inward, in the midst of a chaotic alien environment. The examples aren’t totally applicable to most ethnography now. Buckley uses Malinowski’s journal and the analysis of a young female graduate student. Ultimately, he argues that the ethnographer may likely experience regression and changes of the Self amidst field work in a foreign world.