ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to present a reflexive perspective, which could reconstruct and perhaps innovate the debate on how perceive and understand social practice. It seeks to substantiate is that reflexivity can be seen as a prominent means of transforming social experience in the field to anthropological knowledge. 'Reflexive' anthropologists have disclaimed the use of arrival scenes in ethnographic writing. In their view, the narration of first encounters serves the sole function of establishing the ethnographer's credibility and authority. The concept of reflexivity may provide the connection between shared social experience and a more general understanding of culture. Reflexivity and resonance come into play and reveal how cultural models are resources for thinking and understanding experience, rather than fixed rules for action. Some general concepts can be established which relate to the epistemological and the reflexive processes involved in the cross-cultural space of ethnographic fieldwork.
