ABSTRACT
I start from the premise that anthropological knowledge originates in the field encounter, where we extend our partial connections to the world. The phrase is of course Marilyn Strathern’s (Strathern 1991). I want to extend her insights to a somewhat different field of enquiry, in order to examine how our identifications and complicities in the field determine (or at least strongly influence) the epistemologies that shape our monographs. Put simply, what is the relationship between the field encounter and our epistemological commitments?
