Conrad W. Watson describes fieldwork as ‘a period of particular heightened intensity’ (1999a: 2) in the introduction Being There (1999b). The authors this volume were by far not first, nor last, anthropologists questioning and critically reflecting on what it is that they are actually doing when being there their respective fields. For others (Borneman Hammoudi 2009; Geertz 2004; Hollan 2008), ...