TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Girke, Felix
T1  - Leaving the field in the digital age
JF  - Social Analysis
N2  - Anthropologists’ arrival stories have long served to justify, naturalize, and domesticate—often through humor—the fraught moment of entering unasked into other people's lives. This textual convention has been thoroughly critiqued, but no comparable attention has been paid to the analogous moment of departure from the field. The digital age enables both sides to maintain contact, a shift that negates the finality of earlier departures. This article engages the changes wrought by digital media that allow us to remain connected to the field. While this seems a humane affordance, it also means that it is no longer feasible to cleanly sever ties established ‘there’. When anthropologists leave the field, the field will likely follow them—on Facebook or Instagram.
KW  - Fieldwork
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Arrival and departure
KW  - Digital age
KW  - Ethiopia
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:kon4-opus4-28983
SN  - 1558-5727
SS  - 1558-5727
SN  - 0155-977X
SS  - 0155-977X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650106
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650106
VL  - 65
IS  - 1
SP  - 103
EP  - 112
PB  - Berghahn
CY  - New York
ER  -