Echoes in the Field
Abstract
This article examines the deaths of elderly interlocutors after ethnographic research on diabetes in Belgrade. From the author’s dual position as an anthropologist and a person with diabetes, it argues that grief and mortality are not disruptions but analytical events integral to ethnography. Reframing loss in this way advances medical anthropology’s engagement with chronicity and death, while exposing the structural neglect embedded in biomedical individualism.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Death
Funerary Practices
and Mourning
Anthropological Studies and Insights
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Svetovi revija za etnologijo antropologijo in folkloristiko
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 90–105
- Publication date
- 27 February 2026
- Language
- EN