Title: Reflexive ethnography as a tool in researching Hungarian Krishna devotees reflections on the margin of a long-term fieldwork among the Hungarian Community of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math
Source document: Sacra. 2012, vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 49-55
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49-55
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ISSN1214-5351 (print)2336-4483 (online)
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/127319
Type: Article
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Abstract(s)
The paper deals with some aspects of reflexive fieldwork by analysing the author's Couchsurfing experience in Brno during the workshop "Towards a Symmetrical Approach: The Study of Religions after Postmodern and Postcolonial Criticism". The experience is interpreted as a field situation and the author is regarded as an ethnographer. The author's modes and codes of behaviour are being scrutinized in a reflexive way. The situation and its reflexive analysis can throw light upon certain modes of fieldwork practices which stayed unnoticed during real field situations among a certain group of Hungarian Krishna devotees; the Hungarian Community of Sri Chaitnya Saraswat Math. Making these actions of the researcher conscious may help producing more honest and sensitive ethnographies and may offer a deeper insight into the complex nature of ethnographic fieldwork. In addition, the experience can be useful in my research among Krishna devotees.
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