Paper Short Abstract:

In order to carry out qualitative research in diverse situations, researchers undergo numerous challenges. The challenges are manifold, especially in terms of language, culture, economy and a prevailing political situation which is in a sense more sensitive as well.

Paper Abstract:

In order to carry qualitative research in diverse situations, especially in relation to socio-economic context, researcher undergoes numerous challenges. The challenges are manifold and especially in terms of language, culture, economy and prevailing political situation which is in a sense more sensitive as well.

Since, researcher does not face a language barrier, as majority of respondents do speak and converse in Telugu, which is my mother tongue as well, during my fieldwork period, though they also speak their own language, Lambani or Goar Boli and which is also known as Banjari, belongs to Indo-Aryan group of language family, which researcher was not aware during the fieldwork and later came to know that there are large number of speakers of the language. As viewed by Malinowski and other anthropologists, knowing native language makes researcher job easy during the field. Thus, researchers can understand the intricacies of the setting, locality, community and their everyday interactions lucidly. Researcher do agree that because of modernization and technological advancement, people have become conversant in multiple languages because of their day-to-day engagement and interaction with neighbouring social groups, so to say, dominant castes (MN Srinivas proposition). Our paper tries to engage different propositions of methodology especially in relation to the categories of emic/etic or insider/outsider debates vs field view and book view contestations in anthropological realms in the different spatiality's of rural and tribal spectrum.