The Ethnographer’s “Job” Makes a Little Boy Laugh
In 1999, while doing “fieldwork” in Arima, Trinidad. I am taking a smoke break alone, and a four year old child from the Carib Community comes to keep me company. He asks: “What work do you do?” I answer him, kindly: “This is the work that I do.” He asks again, now with a confused […]
Read More…