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17 - Fieldwork, Field-Friends and the Paradox of Absence

from Part II - Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2020

By
Douglas J. Davies
Edited by
Tim Burt  and
Des Thompson
Tim Burt
Affiliation:
Durham University
Des Thompson
Affiliation:
Scottish Natural Heritage
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Summary

Though I have worked on death rites, Sikhs, emotions and the Church of England, it is to my Mormon research, which began in 1969, that I focus this essay on fieldwork (Douglas, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018). Through participative and archival research in the UK and the USA, through conferences, the supervision and examination of doctoral work and the ensuing friendships, I have found myself networked with scholars and church members in ways hardly imagined by my first-year postgraduate self. This Mormon chapter of my life has been interspersed with, and much influenced by, the other topics just mentioned, each posing intriguing questions of ‘fieldwork’ and of experience in one ‘field’ leaking or flowing into, or even occasionally flooding, the others.

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Curious about Nature
A Passion for Fieldwork
 , pp. 185 - 189
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Davies, D. J. (2010). Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition: Atonement, Evil and the Mormon Vision. Ashgate, Farnham.Google Scholar
Davies, D. J. (2015). Mors Britannica: Lifestyle and Death-Style in Britain Today. Oxford University Press, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davies, D. J. (2017). Death Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites. Third, expanded edition. Bloomsbury, London.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Davies, D. J. (2018). Anthropology and theology: fugues of thought and action. In Theologically Engaged Anthropology, ed Lemons, J. D.. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 194–210.Google Scholar

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