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07/07/25
 
Accompanied Research
Anthropological research and knowledge production rarely take place in isolation. Relationships and interactions are at the heart of anthropological work. Not only the relationships that anthropologists begin to build during their research, but also the relationships they already live with and embody affect their research outcomes. In the evolving landscape of academia, the theme of […]
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Yifan Zhang
30/09/25
Family as the Sanctuary, but I Was Hiding from It
When Uncertainty and Instability Became the Everyday Reality in the Ethnographic Field
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” This study explores the relationship between parental impact, caregiving responsibilities, and gendered familial norms in influencing the fieldwork experiences of an […]
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Sophia Thubauville
30/09/25
Accompanied Research in Literature
From Anecdotes to Epistemological Contributions
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” Even if the topic of accompanied research in social anthropology, receives until now little attention, it does appear in the literature […]
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Judit Tavakoli
30/09/25
The „Kinship“ of the Anthropologist
The Impact of Family Relations on Knowledge Production and Positionality
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” Kinship studies established itself as a core field of anthropology in the early 20th century. While anthropologists studied kinship and sexuality […]
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Pascale Schild
30/09/25
«Mama, warum bist du dort?»
Emotionen, Verletzlichkeiten und die unscharfen Grenzen zwischen Leben und Forschen in der Sozialanthropologie
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” Sozialanthropolog*innen, die für kleine Kinder sorgen, stehen oftmals vor der Herausforderung, ihre Verantwortung als Eltern mit der beruflichen Notwendigkeit ethnographischer (Langzeit-)Forschung […]
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Artemis Saleh
30/09/25
Accompanied Invasions
A Queer of Color Perspective on Accompanied Research and Methods
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” While in recent publications on ethnographic research and positionality, the researcher’s engendered body (Hanson & Richards 2019; Klofl 2017), matters of […]
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Maria Paula Prates
30/09/25
Ethnographies within the Anthropocene
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” We currently live in a world where microplastics exist in practically every human and non-human body without knowing the long-term consequences […]
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Von Simone Pfeifer
30/09/25
Abwesenheit und vermittelte Anwesenheit von Familienmitgliedern
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” Welchen Einfluss hat die Abwesenheit von Familienmitglieder in der Feldforschung (und später in der Analyse und im Schreibprozess), insbesondere wenn es […]
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Bachyt Muratbayeva
30/09/25
A Stranger at Home
Garfinkel’s Unique Adequacy Requirement of Methods in Studying Culturally Familiar Practices of Ethnicization
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” In my paper I discuss the notion of membership (ten Have 2002) and the role of fulfilling Garfinkel’s “unique adequacy requirement […]
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Rosa Meyer
30/09/25
Spielplatzethnographie als Methode in der begleiteten Feldforschung
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” Wo die begleitete Feldforschung in vielerlei Hinsicht zusätzliche Hürden für die Forscherin bedeutet, wird diese Logik durch die Anwendung der Methode […]
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Sinah Theres Kloß
30/09/25
Schwangerschaft und ethnologische Feldforschung
Ein Überblick
Paper proposal for the planned handbook “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology”, edited by Julia Koch-Tshirangwana, Judit Tavakoli & Sophia Thubauville, cp. GAA Working Group „Family in the Field” & Handbook Project “Accompanied Fieldwork in Anthropology” Ethnologische Feldforschung ist eine verkörperte Praxis, die nicht losgelöst von forschenden Körpern und intersektionalen Identitäten der Forschenden stattfindet. Es ist daher […]
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