No. 1 (2015): Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences

The central theme of this volume is to view ethnography as a research process driven by the dynamic interactions between researcher and participants. The editors and contributors emphasise the importance of methodological pluralism and consider new forms of research that go beyond classical methods such as interviews and observations. The volume focuses on the relationships between participants in the 'research situation', the process of generating ethnographic knowledge in different social and cultural contexts, and the influence of emotions on fieldwork.

Topics include the religiosity of young Kashubians, the reconstruction of indigenous traditions in Tahiti, shamanistic practices among the Kichua Indians, and Bronisław Malinowski's ethnography in the context of the sensory turn in anthropology. Other texts examine the contemporary role of fieldwork in the light of psychoanalysis and reflect on the presence of ethnography in the public sphere. 

This volume includes an article entitled Drunken Speech: A Glimpse into the Backstage of Sociality in Western Amazonia,accompanied by a commentary by Peter Gow, a leading scholar of modern Amazonian studies, entitled Steps towards an ethnographic theory. 

Keywords:  survey interview, interviewer-interviewee interaction, ethnographic practice, ethical dilemmas,Finnish houses in Poland, personal memory, oral history, fieldwork, urban space, intangible heritage, the Inter-University Anthropology Conference (MKA), engaged anthropology, cultural anthropology, research methods,research ethics, field, researcher-research subject relationship, experience of researcher, Field, fantasy, ideology,Other, big Other, disciplinary practices, Malinowski Bronislaw, sensual turn, cultural practice, bodily practice,literacy, literary genre, Michel Foucault, archive, fieldnotes, description, index, Ecuador, Quichua, anthropology of history, folk history, shamanism, Tahiti, Polynesia, cultural renewal, relations, unu, indigenous associations,Kashubians, religiosity, ethnic identity, secularization, values, conviviality, descent, alterity, Peru, Panoan, Western Amazonia