Taking note: a kaleidoscopic view on two, or three, modes of fieldnoting
In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is rec...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1468794118782897 2023-05-15T16:29:07+02:00 Taking note: a kaleidoscopic view on two, or three, modes of fieldnoting Flora, Janne Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794118782897 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468794118782897 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1468794118782897 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Qualitative Research volume 19, issue 5, page 540-559 ISSN 1468-7941 1741-3109 History and Philosophy of Science Social Sciences (miscellaneous) journal-article 2018 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118782897 2022-04-14T04:39:17Z In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is recorded differently in our respective notebooks; and that the way we write fieldnotes is not just determined by the anthropologists, but also by the field. We present three kinds of fieldnotes from the same day, produced partly by writing/not writing in notebooks, and by using handheld GPS devices that map activities related to hunting and travel. We suggest that our fieldnotes may best be understood as fragments, details and contexts. Although our fieldnotes may add up an entirety, they cannot represent a complete whole. Together, these fragments are mosaic configurations rather than complete or coherent sets of registered events and situations that come together kaleidoscopically. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Greenland Qualitative Research 19 5 540 559 |
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In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is recorded differently in our respective notebooks; and that the way we write fieldnotes is not just determined by the anthropologists, but also by the field. We present three kinds of fieldnotes from the same day, produced partly by writing/not writing in notebooks, and by using handheld GPS devices that map activities related to hunting and travel. We suggest that our fieldnotes may best be understood as fragments, details and contexts. Although our fieldnotes may add up an entirety, they cannot represent a complete whole. Together, these fragments are mosaic configurations rather than complete or coherent sets of registered events and situations that come together kaleidoscopically. |
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