HINSIDES FORESTILLINGEN OM DET FORUDSIGELIGE: Om at være drikkende ikke-alkoholiker blandt ikke-drikkende alkoholikere
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i31.115452Resumé
Vibeke Steffen: Beyond the Notion of Predictability
- on Being a Drinking Non-
Alcoholic among Non-Drinking Alcoholics
This article argues that anthropological fieldwork
is betler understood as a research strategy
than as a standard set of methods. Based
on the author’s experience as a participantobserver
in a treatment program for alcoholism
in Denmark, the article describes how
the interaction with informants and the character
of the study to a great extent determined
the actual research process. The meaning
of participation became especially central as
informants insisted on the researcher’s active
participation in therapy. This leads to a discussion
of the meaning of participation as a
way of sharing experience and the importance
of unplanned communication as a way of
obtaining information. The kind of relationships
that informants are prepared to share
with us as researchers, and the kind of relationships
that we as researchers are prepared to
enter into with our informants, are seen as an
ongoing process of negotiation creating the
basic conditions for knowledge. Thus, the
author concludes that it makes no sense to try
to describe anthropological methods as
techniques of data collection separate from
the concrete research process.
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