Where is the Border? Fieldwork Biases and Problems of Scale in Ethnic Structuration in Sápmi

• Published in: Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid
• Main Author: Díaz de Rada, Ángel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2008
• Subjects: Ethnography; Theoretical Sensibility; Ethnicity; Interethnic Relations; Essentialism; Reification; Northern Norway; Etnografía; Sensibilidad teórica; Etnicidad; Relaciones interétnicas; Esencialismo; Reificación; Noruega septentrional; Consecuencia; Noruega; Norway; Norte de Noruega; saami; sami
• Online Access: https://dra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/dra/article/view/52; https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2008.v63.i1.52

This essay explores an aspect of the fieldwork experience which is often neglected in autobiographic reviews of the research processes: the formation of the ethnographer’s theoretical sensibility, as a consequence of fieldwork practice. Based upon research carried out in a town in Northern Norway, G...