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This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between
Liria Hernandez, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco,
a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment,
the former informant returns the gaze to write about the
anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely
crafted and deeply moving text, Hernandez and Gay y Blasco suggest
new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between
Hernandez and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous account of the
entanglements and rewards of anthropological research. Drawing on
letters, conversations, and fieldnotes gathered over twenty-five
years, each of the authors talks about herself, the other, and the
impact of anthropology on their two lives. They examine their
intertwined trajectories as Spanish women and reflect on the
challenges of devising their own reciprocal genre. Blending
ethnography, life story and memoir, they undermine the dichotomy
between author and subject around which scholarship still revolves.
This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between
Liria Hernandez, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco,
a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment,
the former informant returns the gaze to write about the
anthropologist, her life and her environment. Through finely
crafted and deeply moving text, Hernandez and Gay y Blasco suggest
new ways of doing and writing anthropology. The dialogue between
Hernandez and Gay y Blasco provides a courageous account of the
entanglements and rewards of anthropological research. Drawing on
letters, conversations, and fieldnotes gathered over twenty-five
years, each of the authors talks about herself, the other, and the
impact of anthropology on their two lives. They examine their
intertwined trajectories as Spanish women and reflect on the
challenges of devising their own reciprocal genre. Blending
ethnography, life story and memoir, they undermine the dichotomy
between author and subject around which scholarship still revolves.
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