ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the effect of emotional involvement in the field and the effect of movement between conflicted worlds on ethnographic research. Emotions and movements were narrowly related in the Israeli-Palestinian space. Objectivism constructs a specific perspective and relation to reality in which the researcher withdraws himself from action in order to observe it from afar and from above. Scholars also discussed how ethnographic observation, description and understanding may be deepened by the sharing of emotional intensity and even by taking sides with the hosting community. Jeanne Favret-Saada explains that antagonistic situations allow no margin for pretending to be a neutral observer. Contrary to what is often assumed, symbolic violence does not always exercise itself on the interviewee but, in certain circumstances, it can also exercise itself on the interview.
