Writing Friendship: A Reciprocal Ethnography

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This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely crafted and deeply moving text, Hernández and Gay y Blasco suggest new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between Hernández and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous acco…

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Full title :Writing Friendship : A Reciprocal Ethnography / by Paloma Gay y Blasco, Liria Hernández.

Summary

This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely crafted and deeply moving text, Hernández and Gay y Blasco suggest new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between Hernández and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous account of the entanglements and rewards of anthropological research. Drawing on letters, conversations, and fieldnotes gathered over twenty-five years, each of the authors talks about herself, the other, and the impact of anthropology on their two lives. They examine their intertwined trajectories as Spanish women and reflect on the challenges of devising their own reciprocal genre. Blending ethnography, life story and memoir, they undermine the dichotomy between author and subject around which scholarship still revolves.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.
Edition:1st ed. 2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (82 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:3030265420, 9783030265427
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-26542-7
oclc:on1237487877
LC Classification:B783.Z7
Dewey Decimal:195

A note on fonts, terms and anonymity -- Chapter 1: Sister of my Soul -- Chapter 2: Breaking Away -- Chapter 3: Two girls -- Chapter 4: Writing Friendship -- Chapter 5: Those Who Surround Us -- Chapter 6: About God, and About Anthropology -- Epilogue: Afterwards -- Appendix: Devising a Reciprocal Genre -- Acknowledgements.

Subjects

Anthropology -- Methodology Cultural studies Culture Ethnography Ethnologie Ethnology Female friendship Féminisme et anthropologie Feminist anthropology social anthropology Sociology of culture Spain