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The anthropological venture may seem a linear progression from observation to elaboration of theories and writing. Having decided where to do fieldwork, anthropologists go to their chosen area, interact with men and women, collect data and formulate hypotheses. On leaving the field they go home with a variety of ‘objects’ which they transform through professional concepts, jargon and theoretical models into ethnographic texts.
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Grau, A. (1999). Fieldwork, Politics and Power. In: Buckland, T.J. (eds) Dance in the Field. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375291_13
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