Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic

Serekoane, Motsaathebe; Marais, Lochner; Pienaar, Michael; Sharp, Carla; Cloete, Jan; Blomerus, Liezel

doi:10.1080/23323256.2021.2002701

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“…Arguably, within a Western cultural context, interview-based studies can be considered culturally appropriate and, in some instances, may be the most effective way to undertake an ethnography (Hockey and Forsey 2012: 74). Further, conducting telephone and online interviews can also be considered an acceptable and reasonable methodological alternative to document lived experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (Rahman et al 2021;Serekoane et al 2021;Watson et al 2021). This factor rang true in my circumstances.…”

Section: Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lack of access, world changes due to COVID-19 and personal issues made the prospect of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in-person and long-term virtually impossible, as is increasingly becoming the experience of many anthropologists (Blum 2020;Fine and Abramson 2020;Góralska 2020;Johnson 2022;Podjed 2021;Serekoane et al 2021;Watson et al 2021;Watson and Lupton 2022). Through patchwork ethnography, we were able to take a peek behind the patchwork curtain, exploring death and the body in Adelaide.…”

Section: Curtain Call: Points To Consider and Benefits Of Patchwork E...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Peeking Behind the Curtains

Fratini¹,

Hemer²,

Chur‐Hansen³

2022

Anthropology in Action

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Patchwork ethnography is a viable methodological and theoretical approach. Fieldwork can be accessible, achievable and accommodating of both personal and professional circumstances and responsibilities of the researcher, and external factors such as living within a COVID-19 world. In this article, we explain patchwork ethnography and showcase how the methodology was implemented during the first author's PhD fieldwork conducted in 2020–2021 relating to peeking behind the physical and metaphorical curtains of the death industry to understand the handling, management and conceptualisation of the dead human body in Adelaide, South Australia. We demonstrate how field sites were constructed and discuss the methodological tools utilised to produce an ethnographic experience. We also question the ongoing viability of notions of ‘traditional’ fieldwork practices.

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Section: Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%