Ethnographic research is a thoroughly material matter, but the involvement of material things in performing ethnographic methods is hardly investigated. Referring to my own research in various fields of digitalized work, I offer a reflexive analysis of the material production of ethnographic presence. In particular, I reflect on how clothing, field notes, and a camera contribute to making ethnographic research noticeable for and accessible to participants. Taking a practice theory perspective, the article conceptualizes ethnographic presence as a situated performance based on the dramaturgical and embodying contributions of material things. My analysis challenges the idea of openness as an ideal of research ethics that could be realized independently of the material and situated circumstances of fieldwork. It also shows that the material making of ethnographic presence offers particular methodological benefits including epistemic partnerships, insights from staged behavior, and the facilitation of ethnographic data collection.

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民族志存在的物质实践

人种学研究是一个彻底的物质问题，但物质事物在执行人种学方法中的参与很少被调查。参考我自己在数字化工作各个领域的研究，我对民族志存在的物质生产进行了反思性分析。我特别反思了服装、田野笔记和相机如何有助于使参与者注意到和接触到人种学研究。从实践理论的角度来看，本文将民族志存在概念化为一种基于物质事物的戏剧性和体现性贡献的情境表演。我的分析挑战了作为研究伦理理想的开放性思想，这种思想可以独立于实地工作的物质和情境环境而实现。