ABSTRACT
Providing some insight into the researching of spiritual embodiment within reggae/dancehall dance vocabulary, Chapter 4 critically engages some of the issues and challenges faced by the researcher who belongs, in part, to the community or group under investigation. In considering and presenting a decolonising approach to the research it adopts new forms of language emerging from within the research field and the wider Jamaican culture within which it sits. It examines dancehall in relation to the ideas emerging from the dance history and spirituality chapters, identifying the explicit and implicit issues surrounding ‘come-liv-wid-mi’ (ethnographic) methodology, including ‘preeing’ (participant observation) and ‘reasoning’ (formal and informal interview) approaches forming part of the mixed methods adopted towards capturing the dancehall experiences shared by culture bearers and culture sharers (research subjects). The researcher's positioning and issues of power are dealt with through ‘re/membrance’ (auto/ethnographic reflexivity) and ‘thick description’ (Geertz, 1973), in discussing the explicit and implicit meanings and ideas embodied within the research data.
