RT Journal Article
T1 Towards a carnal anthropology: R reflections of an ‘imperfect’ anthropologist
A1 Vartabedian, Julieta
AB This article offers an exploration into the ways in which the researcher’s body enters into a permanent dialogue with the practices and the discourses of the research participants, and is transformed into an essential investigative tool. Based on my ethnographic experience amongst a group of Brazilian travesti sex workers, I will show how my own ‘imperfect’ body, according to the travesti canons of feminine aesthetics, became an element that awarded me visibility and served as a bridge to interaction with them. At the same time, I was accidentally interpreted by the group as the ‘photographer’. From this corporeal interaction, and via the medium of the camera, I was able to legitimize my position amongst travestis and open a new field of theoretical enquiry, developing, therefore, Wacquant’s proposal (2004) on a ‘corporeal sociology’ in the understanding of the active role that the body takes in the research process.
PB Sage
SN 1468-7941
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34356
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34356
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 may 2024