In his article, ' Fieldwork and the Perception of Everyday Life' (1994: 445), Timothy Jenkins argues that 'apprenticeship' better describes what happens during fieldwork than 'collecting data'. 'Knowledge of everyday life,' he asserted, is not available to the disinterested gaze of an inquirer; rather, fieldwork is an apprenticeship of signs, a process of entry into a particular world, governed by a variety of factors, including the situation and previous experience of the anthropologist. During an apprenticeship, as well as skills and perceptions, memories and desires are altered, so that every actor, indigenous or ethnographer, is engaged in a personal and experiential capacity.
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