Practicing ethnography – what they don’t tell us
Cecelia Busby (2000) in her book mentions that she booked tickets for home and left. It was during this time before she returned to the field that she came across Malinowski’s (1989) diary, which she recommends to everyone working in a ‘field’. In my doctoral research, I practice ethnography to understand the fish economy in the Andaman Islands. I rely on participant observation using the lens of political economy and economic anthropology to understand the making of a fish economy.
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