Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork
Abstract This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interr...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe2021102752492 2023-07-30T04:00:44+02:00 Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork Norum, R. (Roger) Herva, V.-P. (Vesa-Pekka) Paphitis, T. (Tina) 2021 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021102752492 eng eng Informa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Arctic Finland Lapland consciousness fieldwork reflexivity temporality info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:58:30Z Abstract This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interrogating the cognitive and physical engagements of the researcher with it, not only as a place and process of data gathering and knowledge production, but one of reflexivity and self-understanding. This seeks to appreciate the effects that the fieldwork experience has on the researcher and, thus, on the science they produce for their (disciplinary) field. Building on reflexive approaches to fieldwork and ethnographies of practice, we explore the implications of fieldworking in, particularly, the European Arctic. This paper further considers several entanglements in the past and present of the European Arctic as a field more generally as a way of framing the specific field site that we have focused this special issue around: the village of Kilpisjärvi (Gilbbesjávri) in Finnish Lapland. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Kilpisjärvi Lapland Jultika - University of Oulu repository Arctic Kilpisjärvi ENVELOPE(20.767,20.767,69.034,69.034) |
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Abstract This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interrogating the cognitive and physical engagements of the researcher with it, not only as a place and process of data gathering and knowledge production, but one of reflexivity and self-understanding. This seeks to appreciate the effects that the fieldwork experience has on the researcher and, thus, on the science they produce for their (disciplinary) field. Building on reflexive approaches to fieldwork and ethnographies of practice, we explore the implications of fieldworking in, particularly, the European Arctic. This paper further considers several entanglements in the past and present of the European Arctic as a field more generally as a way of framing the specific field site that we have focused this special issue around: the village of Kilpisjärvi (Gilbbesjávri) in Finnish Lapland. |
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Norum, R. (Roger) Herva, V.-P. (Vesa-Pekka) Paphitis, T. (Tina) |
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Norum, R. (Roger) Herva, V.-P. (Vesa-Pekka) Paphitis, T. (Tina) |
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Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork |
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Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork |
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Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork |
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Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork |
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Minding the field:sensory and affective engagements with high Arctic fieldwork |
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