Insecurities of nativism

This article, through various ethnographic encounters, highlights the advantages and explores challenges of fieldwork for a female researcher studying what might be taken to her own community. Doing native anthropology in marginal borderland that has not been explored anthropologically before turns out an interesting experience. On one hand, identity being region carves ways field help overcome barriers; on other same identity, common ethnic cultural belonging, kinship relations, local familiarity restricts many ways. Through explorations along gender, caste, class, lines, work how sometimes she is insider, outsider, partial-insider-outsider, thereby collapsing strict division into categories outsider insider.