• English
    • Welsh
  • English 
    • English
    • Welsh
  • Login
Search DSpace:
  • Home
  • Research at Cardiff Met
  • Library Services
  • Contact Us
View item 
  • DSpace home
  • Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences
  • Sport Research Groups
  • View item
  • DSpace home
  • Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences
  • Sport Research Groups
  • View item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Changing forms of ethnography and shifting researcher positioning in the study of a Mexican martial art

Thumbnail
View/open
Author's original (406.9Kb)
Author
Jennings, George
Date
2018-04-01
Type
Book chapter
Publisher
Vernon Press
Embargoed until
2100-01-01
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
Xilam is a new Mexican martial art that continues to evolve in terms of its organisation and promotion. As part of the emerging interdisciplinary field of martial arts studies, my project began with full immersion within Xilam through an embodied ethnography and as a newcomer to Mexico. Yet my position shifted with increased linguistic capabilities, the closing of my fieldwork site and new opportunities for data collection and writing. From phenomenological methods to digital ethnography and life history, my methods changed as new questions were asked. This chapter explores how both the subject (the researcher) and the object (the ethnos) of study altered over the course of my investigation, and how I embraced this change in order to continue the writing (the –graphy) to create this messy ethnography. I argue that through such a messy methodology social scientists can get behind the murkiness of social life within and between disciplines.
Citation
Jennings, G. (2018). Changing forms of ethnography and shifting researcher positioning in the study of a Mexican martial art. In A. Plows (Ed.) Messy ethnographies in action (pp. 41-50). Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.
URI
https://vernonpress.com/book/385
http://hdl.handle.net/10369/9691
Description
Copy not available from this repository - available from https://vernonpress.com/book/385
Rights
http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved
Collections
  • Sport Research Groups [1084]

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, subject and abstract.

  • Thumbnail

    Ethnography in martial arts studies 

    Jennings, George (SAGE, 2019-09-09)
    Martial art studies is an interdisciplinary, international field in which ethnography plays a pivotal role. Since the 1970s, ethnographies of martial arts collectives have steadily developed in accordance with advancements ...
  • Thumbnail

    City Gorged with Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris 

    Unknown author (Manchester University Press, 2008-10-17)
    When the relationship between Surrealism and photography first became a subject of academic attention in the 1980s, the common view was that the core of Surrealist photography lay in staged and manipulated work. What was ...
  • Thumbnail

    Utilising ethnography and participant observation in festival and event research 

    Jaimangal-Jones, Dewi (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues surrounding the use of ethnography and participant observation in event studies. It considers the role and benefits of participant observation in terms of ...

Browse

DSpace at Cardiff MetCommunities & CollectionsBy issue dateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis collectionBy issue dateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

My Account

Login

Statistics

Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

DSpace software copyright © 2002-2015  DuraSpace
Contact us | Send feedback | Administrator