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Accepted Paper:
Working on stigmatized people: negotiating suspicion and mistrust
Virtudes Téllez Delgado
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper I will show some fieldwork events that I lived with young Muslims in Madrid who felt stigmatized as terrorist by the rest of the society in the aftermath of 11th March 2004.
Paper long abstract:
At present, working on Muslims means to carry out a fieldwork characterized by people who feel stigmatized by others. Sometimes, this people have enough 'cultural capital' to try to change their stigmatized image. In doing so, they watch any statement from anyone, even or above all, from Anthropologists working on them.
In this paper I will show some fieldwork events that I lived with young Muslims in Madrid who felt stigmatized as terrorist by the rest of the society in the aftermath of 11th March 2004. By means of this experience I will reflect on ethic suppositions that anthropologists should pay attention during their fieldwork with stigmatized people. Moreover, I will think about political and morals relations with informants when they suspect and mistrust Anthropologist's intentions.