ABSTRACT

This introduction to this special issue considers various approaches to understanding ‘the field’ as an object of archaeological and anthropological research, and researchers’ own engagements with it. We draw out some theoretical and methodological approaches to the field as a way of interrogating the cognitive and physical engagements of the researcher with it, not only as a place and process of data gathering and knowledge production, but one of reflexivity and self-understanding. This seeks to appreciate the effects that the fieldwork experience has on the researcher and, thus, on the science they produce for their (disciplinary) field. Building on reflexive approaches to fieldwork and ethnographies of practice, we explore the implications of fieldworking in, particularly, the European Arctic. This paper further considers several entanglements in the past and present of the European Arctic as a field more generally as a way of framing the specific field site that we have focused this special issue around: the village of Kilpisjärvi (Gilbbesjávri) in Finnish Lapland.

摘要

本期特刊的介绍考虑了将“领域”理解为考古学和人类学研究对象的各种方法，以及研究人员自己的参与。我们为该领域提出了一些理论和方法论方法，作为一种询问研究人员对其认知和身体参与的方式，不仅是数据收集和知识生产的场所和过程，而且是反思性和自我理解的一种方式。这旨在了解实地工作经验对研究人员的影响，从而对他们为（学科）领域产生的科学产生影响。基于对实地考察和实践民族志的反思性方法，我们探索了实地考察在特别是欧洲北极地区的影响。