Breaking taboos: erotic subjectivity in fieldwork

Authors

  • LUIZ FERNANDO ROJO Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v12i12p41-56

Keywords:

participant observation, ethics, erotic subjectivity

Abstract

Evans-Pritchard receivedvaried advices before he started hisresearch among the Azande. Seligman’sadvice was to keep away from womenduring the fieldwork. More than 60years after his work was published inspite of all reflexivity brought intoparticipant-observation and productionof etnog raphies, Seligman’s adviceseems unquestioned, if not inanthropology’s everyday practice, atleast in the ethnographic writing. Inthis article, following Kulick andWillson’s criticism as to the absence ofdiscussion about fieldworkers’ eroticsubjectivity, I explore the impacts ofmy love relationship in my fieldwork,both in working out my identity for thegroup researched and to the resultingaccess to social spaces as well to thediscussion about ethic issues inanthropology.

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Author Biography

  • LUIZ FERNANDO ROJO, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro
    Mestre em ciências sociais pela UERJ e doutorandoem ciências sociais pela UERJ.

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Published

2004-03-30

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 12 (2004)

Section

Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

ROJO, L. F. (2004). Breaking taboos: erotic subjectivity in fieldwork. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 12(12), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v12i12p41-56