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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Ethno review</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Ethno review</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Этнографическое обозрение</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0869-5415</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-6274</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">672562</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/S0869541524020093</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">CKNADR</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Research Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи и материалы</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">German conversations about field ethnography: a view from the Russian tradition</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Немецкие разговоры о полевой этнографии: взгляд из российской традиции</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Butschatskaja</surname><given-names>Julia V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бучатская</surname><given-names>Юлия Валерьевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio><p>к. и. н., старший научный сотрудник</p></bio><email>julia.butschatskaja@yahoo.de</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера), РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-08-26" publication-format="electronic"><day>26</day><month>08</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>169</fpage><lpage>189</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-02-27"><day>27</day><month>02</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-5415/article/view/672562">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-5415/article/view/672562</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article presents a Russian researcher’s view of German ethnographers as “Others” and their perception of fieldwork as the main practice and method of the discipline, as reflected in their informal communication. In attempting to compare this with the Russian material, I found that it was impossible to apply the same optics to the analysis of the professional cultures of Russian and German ethnographers, yet similar narratives about fieldwork emerged as the result. The reason for these similarities lies in the communicative nature of ethnologists’ work and the universal traits of the psychology of people who produce ethnological knowledge. Reflecting on my experience of collecting this field material in Berlin, I look at myself as an observer of “Others” and argue that subjective experiences and boundaries influenced the way the research was conducted and the character of interpretations that the material received. I further comment on the unfavorable role asymmetry between the researcher and the researched, that made the coproduction of knowledge problematic.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Статья представляет взгляд исследователя, взращенного в российской традиции на немецких коллег-этнографов как Других. В сравнении с российским материалом рассматривается восприятие немецкими этнографами полевого исследования как главной практики и метода дисциплины, проявляющееся в неформальной коммуникации о поле. Для сравнительного анализа профессиональных культур российских и немецких этнографов оказалось невозможно применить одинаковую оптику, однако выявились сходные нарративы о полевом исследовании. Причина сходства кроется в коммуникативном характере работы этнологов и в универсальных особенностях психологии людей, производящих этнологическое знание. Рефлексируя по поводу сбора этого материала в берлинском поле, автор обращает взгляд на себя, изучающего Других, и делает выводы о влиянии субъективного опыта и границ между разными научными традициями на то, как проходило исследование и какие интерпретации получил материал, а также о неблагоприятном влиянии асимметрии ролей исследователя и исследуемых, сделавшей проблематичным сопроизводство знания.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Europäische Ethnologie</kwd><kwd>European ethnology</kwd><kwd>ethnographic methods</kwd><kwd>ethnography of professions</kwd><kwd>fieldwork</kwd><kwd>research reflection</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Europäische Ethnologie</kwd><kwd>европейская этнология</kwd><kwd>этнографические методы</kwd><kwd>этнография профессий</kwd><kwd>исследовательская рефлексия</kwd><kwd>полевые исследования</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Beer, B. 2008. 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