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The hip-hop box, the stranger, and the Indian shopkeeper: Nearness-distance in ethnographic fieldwork

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Qualitative Research

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Abstract

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Working through encounters between streetcorner men and a South Asian anthropologist in Newark, NJ, this paper examines the methodological implications and productive possibilities of the failure of rapport. This failure crystallized in antagonism over ...