Uninvited Guest

The advent of the ethnographer in the “field” marks the beginning of an experience that cuts the researcher off from everyday life in various ways; the introducing framework is crucial for what happens next. Whilst summarising the integration parameters in the fieldwork process, it is easy to assume that (ethnographic) data-producing events rarely occur by chance. From the very first moment of choosing where to conduct fieldwork, the ethnographer is oriented towards an inner journey, and a sequence of choices, that may consequently be admittedly expressed or simply not. From the working hypothesis to the social role through which the ethnographer will conduct fieldwork research, the results are somehow predetermined since initial choices or just inherent conditions also determine the lens through which we perceive reality and thus “our” ethnography.