Paper short abstract:

The paper presents the author's encounter with unanticipated incidents, out of the stream of chronological professional realia, that have challenged his perception and belief about the moral order of professional ethics, ethnographic reporting principles, and collegial communication.

Paper long abstract:

The paper presents the author's encounter with unanticipated incidents, out of the stream of chronological professional realia, that affected his perception and belief about the ethics, methodology, and the interpretation of ethnographic observations. These experiential moments also raised some qualms about the norms of collegial communication. In particular, our discussion depicts the discourse concerning contradictory versions reporting on social-political conflicts in the society under study; the association and relevance of the ethnographer's national identity; the terms of personal communication between anthropologists exposing different viewpoints on ethnographic presentations or support conflicting political sentiments on wider world affairs. And last, reporting on impromptu circumstances engaging the anthropologist in mini-ethnographic ventures that lead to issues of wider social-cultural significance.