Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but are mediated by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts of researchers with various socio-cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, who collaborated as a team to examine the varied funerary experiences and needs of established minorities and recent migrants in England and Wales. Focusing on the researchers’ varied personal experiences with death and bereavement and on their performances of minority and majority ethnic and migrant identities, the paper highlights the mediated and embodied nature of fieldwork. It argues that reflection on the various aspects of intersectional researcher identity is necessary for a rigorous fieldwork practice that takes transparency and politics into account. This facilitates a deeper understanding of the positionality of both researchers and interlocutors, and the situated co-production of knowledge. In doing so, the paper illustrates that conducting research with a diverse team of researchers contributes to better understanding the complexity and multifacetedness of social phenomena.

实地考察不仅取决于传记的主观性，而且还取决于身份，地点和体现方式的融合。本文对具有不同社会文化背景和学科背景的研究人员进行了反思，他们作为一个团队进行了合作，研究了英格兰和威尔士已建立的少数民族和新移民的各种丧葬经历和需求。着眼于研究人员在死亡和丧亲上的各种个人经历，以及他们对少数族裔，多数族裔和移民身份的表现，强调了实地调查的中介性和体现性。它认为，对于严格的实地调查实践，考虑到透明性和政治性，有必要对交叉研究者身份的各个方面进行反思。这有助于更深入地了解研究人员和对话者的位置，以及知识的共同生产。通过这样做，本文说明与多元化的研究人员团队进行研究有助于更好地理解社会现象的复杂性和多面性。