Woman, Non-Native, Other
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26686/ce.v3i1.6652Keywords:
Fieldwork, Identity, Native/non-native binary, Ethnographic silencesAbstract
This article addresses my fieldwork experiences as a Korean-American woman in Sri Lanka. In particular, it highlights the challenges I encountered around my identity, ranging from almost universal initial disbelief of my being “American” to questioning why I was studying in Sri Lanka and not South Korea. I go on to discuss how these challenges illustrate the persistence of the native/insider and non-native/outsider binary, and how, through this binary, the default racial category of the anthropologist still remains unnuanced and white.
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