In this ‘Tale from the Field’, I reflect on the practice of ethnographic fieldwork with folk puppeteers over time, using my own experiences in a single fieldwork site at two points, 38 years apart. I describe my fieldwork as a graduate student in 1982 and as a professor towards the end of my career in 2020. I reflect on differences based on digital communication equipment and on my own changing positionality. My 2020 fieldwork was interrupted by the covid-19 confinement which adds a new wrinkle to contemporary participant observation.

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一生对民族志田野工作的思考

在本“田野物语”中，我利用自己在一个单独的田野工地中相隔38年的两个时间点上的经验，回顾了随时间推移与民间木偶的民族志田野调查的实践。我将我的野外工作描述为1982年的研究生，而在2020年职业生涯快要结束时担任教授。我反思基于数字通信设备的差异以及自己不断变化的定位。我的2020年田野调查被covid-19禁闭打断了，这给当代参与者的观察增添了新的皱纹。