Of Fieldwork, Folklore, and Festival: Personal Encounters

Olga Nájera-Ramírez

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Of Fieldwork, Folklore, and Festival: Personal Encounters

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1999 English Publisher:University of Illinois PressJournal:Journal of American Folklore, volume 112, pages 183-199 (issn: 0021-8715, eissn: 1535-1882,

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Authors: Olga Nájera-Ramírez;

doi: 10.2307/541948

Of Fieldwork, Folklore, and Festival: Personal Encounters

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Abstract Drawing on folklorist Américo Paredes’s insights on the ethnographic encounter, this article examines the role of personal experience in the fieldwork process. In particular, I provide a personal account of how my identity shaped my interactions in the field and how these ethnographic encounters in turn shaped my approach to, and understanding of, a specific festival.

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