Rurality, personal pathways and reflexivity in the construction of the field

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to start with the relationship that anthropologists establish with the field, and through an ex-post-fact approach, consider how personal and training pathways are relevant in constructing the field. Drawing on the concept of participant objectivation by Bourdieu, in an exercise of reflexivity we problematize processes of categorization and classification that arise from ‘social worlds’ and discuss how certain choices often seen as personal should perhaps be thought of as the result of external circumstances and binding processes between the researcher and his rationality processes.