Devotee/Ethnographer: My Struggle at the Boundary Walls of Participant Observation

• Published in: Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Vol. 13; no. 6; p. 538
• Main Author: Majumder, Atreyee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2022
• Subjects: Ancient languages; Anthropology; autoethnography; Bhakti; Deities; devotion; Ethnography; Hindus; Nation states; participant observation; presence; Religion; Traditions; India

This article demonstrates the difficulty of incorporating within the methodological ambit of ‘participant observation’, a possibility of the ethnographer herself staking claim in the religious truth claims of the community that constitute the subject of research. In so doing, this article provides a...