The death of informants or when a fieldworker outlives the community studied

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F18%3A10387879" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/18:10387879 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1517233" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1517233</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1517233" target="_blank" >10.1080/13645579.2018.1517233</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The death of informants or when a fieldworker outlives the community studied
Original language description
This paper analyses the phenomenon of the death of informants. Based on his own experience with the long-term (1999-2016) research of Voyvodovo - the only Czech village in Bulgaria, the author shows what the death of one's informants means for the research and the researcher. The author argues that any long-term fieldwork entails emotional involvement of the researcher, and so the departure of his or her informants has a deep impact on the researcher's well-being. The articles also address methodological consequences of the death of informants, namely, the case when the death of all of them leads to a situation that the group ceases to exist. The author shows that with the last member's passing away Malinowski's 'native's point of view' is lost forever. The author also suggests that the topic of death of informants should be included into educational curricula for fieldwork training.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical
International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice
ISSN
1364-5579
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
207-218
UT code for WoS article
000456485600007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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