Sirûş. Revelation.

If I had come into a room and started talking about my fieldwork experiences without explaining who I am, you might have found that a bit rude and you would be right. So why would one begin a blog that way? I think its time for me to backtrack a little. In the simplest terms, this is a space for me to collect together certain experiences I have had while doing anthropological fieldwork/ethnography (two very very close but not identical practices) in a way that people outside the field can understand and even enjoy, free of jargon or the constricted types of communication common in the halls of the academy. This benefits me and it benefits you too: You have the chance to experience very interesting things vicariously and I get to experiment with the border between fiction, nonfiction and ethnographic writing. Most of what you read here is literally a reproduction of what I remember, but we are always fictionalizing to some extent. I also get to enjoy just playing with words rather t...