At Home on the Margins
The longer you live, the more complicated it gets to tell your story with any kind of coherent theme. Now in my seventieth yearwhich, as it happens, I have chosen to make my last of full-time academic employmentI reflect back cautiously. I see a career taking circuitous paths with unexpected branc...
| Subtitles: | Portrait: Ann Grodzins Gold |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2016]
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| In: |
Religion and society
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16 |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The longer you live, the more complicated it gets to tell your story with any kind of coherent theme. Now in my seventieth yearwhich, as it happens, I have chosen to make my last of full-time academic employmentI reflect back cautiously. I see a career taking circuitous paths with unexpected branchings, a career responsive to all kinds of pressureseconomic and familial, interpersonal and intrapersonal. The directions I first explored through ethnographic fieldwork were evidently charted by experiences of my pre-academic life. After that, my projects large and small framed themselves in response to shifting combinations of what I encountered in one Rajasthan village in North India and what I heard around me at conferences and seminars and, of course, read in books and articles. However, it is fair to say that my reading often lagged behind my research rather than motivating it. For example, I immersed myself in memory theory only after I had returned from India with 40-some-odd cassette tapes full of recorded memories. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2016.070102 |