Pohran, Nadya, Beal, Bree S., Bielo, James M., Howell, Brian, Lackenby, Nicholas, Meneses, Eloise, Sommerschuh, Julian and Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie . Belief-Inclusive Research Does Strategically Bracketing Out a Researcher's (Religious) Beliefs and Doubts Limit Access to Ethnographic Data? Curr. Anthropol.. CHICAGO: UNIV CHICAGO PRESS. ISSN 1537-5382
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This article outlines a methodological posture that I consciously adopted during recent ethnographic fieldwork. I call this methodological posture belief-inclusive research (BIR), and I see it as a complementary contrast to existing methodological frameworks that suggest the bracketing out of a researcher's own beliefs. I offer BIR as a distinctive methodological posture for ethnographers who work in and with religious contexts. I demonstrate that the long-standing tradition of bracketing out questions of metaphysical truth during the writing-up phases of anthropology seems to have also impacted the fieldwork phase. I explore the ways that some degree of shared belief-which, crucially, I do not limit to doctrinal beliefs-between researcher and informants has the potential to widen a researcher's access to certain types of data. In highlighting that the long-standing practice of bracketing has limited a researcher's access to some kinds of data and in offering BIR as a new methodological posture, this article lays the groundwork for anthropology to construct new conceptual spaces that actively encourage a researcher to include their own (religious) beliefs and doubts in the midst of fieldwork.
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-689193 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1086/722329 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Curr. Anthropol. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | UNIV CHICAGO PRESS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Publication: | CHICAGO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/68919 |
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