The hip-hop box, the stranger, and the Indian shopkeeper: Nearness-distance in ethnographic fieldwork
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DOI: 10.1177/14687941251377280
Abstract: Working through encounters between streetcorner men and a South Asian anthropologist in Newark, NJ, this paper examines the methodological implications and productive possibilities of the failure of rapport. This failure crystallized in antagonism over consumption… read more here.
Keywords: hop box; distance; stranger; box stranger ... See more keywords