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Anthropology is companion studies: a study of violent relations during fieldwork with my family

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posted on 2023-06-09, 16:34 authored by Jonathan Newman
Companions in the field influence ethnography, so affecting research position whilst providing research insights. The research of violence takes place within the relations of violence being studied. Family companions who used to live in a field site are entwined in those violent relations. Capacity for violent threat or suffering is connected to the companions of family. Reporting on companions is problematic. Where anonymity is compromised, key information has to be withheld, which in turn, leads readers to question integrity. The ethical balance between author, companions and reader reveals more about the relationality of violence. As anthropology turns towards analysing a relational positioning between multifarious companions, the study of family companions expands to consider how intimate companions, of one kind or another, unavoidably shape ethnography. The paper contributes to understanding violence, the research of violence, accompanied fieldwork and methodology in relational anthropological frameworks.

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Leverhulme Project Grant; F/00 230/AG; Leverhulme Turst; F/00 230/AG

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Ethnography

ISSN

1466-1381

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-01-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-01-18

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-01-17

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