The confessional tale is often a response to some of the realist conventions that have proved most embarrassing. In some in-stances, the confessional tale stems from the notorious sensitivityof many feldworkers to aspersions cast on the scientifc status oftheir undertakings. The result, then, is an attempt to explicitly demystify feldwork or participant-observation by showing how thetechnique is practiced in the feld.引自第73页