Beyond the Method, the Method, Again

In retrospect, we perceive ethnographic fieldwork as a life experience and ethnography as a performative and reflexive process. We focus on participant observation attempting to develop it as a behavioural practice and a potential psychotherapeutic act. The concept and function of “role” through an array of epistemological, interpretive, ethical, and applied parameters is fundamental in this methodological approach, where “selfhood” provides grounds for theoretical reflection. We present a methodological protocol for teaching and conducting ethnographic fieldwork by combining psychotechnical performance and cognitive outcomes. This is well beyond ethnography per se.