ETHNOGRAPHIC SETTING IN A CONFLICT ZONE: A PRE-PLAN TO FIELDWORK

Abstract

The article is about the preliminary planning to visit the armed conflict sites. Although some anthropologists and ethnographers are of the opinion that there is no valid benchmark to reproduce a planned methodological paradigm to carry out a research in an armed conflict zone, however, a set of preplanned trivial and transitionary methods are employed to carry out the fieldwork in such situations. This article tries to produce a map of fieldwork research on the basis of ethnographic principles. This may preferably try to explain ‘how’ of things and not ‘what’ of them.

While writing this article the researcher is in his field locale and is yet to complete his data collection, but the subjective understanding and the planning given underneath has grasped many fruitful results.