In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies
This research gives an insight into the difficulties of doing family folkloric research in documenting folk wedding songs in the Rajput community of Bhakkar, Pakistan. I have gathered and analyzed 84 folk wedding songs taken from women of that community-majority by those who are my relatives. To overcome these drawbacks, I employed certain strategies like compromise, collaboration, and negotiation. These tactics would often prove very important to maintain rapport while doing research with people when research is going on in relation to folklore. The findings discuss challenges that are encountered in the process of folklore studies with the family context, which "require an adaptable approach." In this study, my experience in family folklore research has been very inclusive of unique challenges such as research encounters and developed insights on how to cope with them effectively in such situations.
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Challenges in Fieldwork. Family Folklore, Folk Wedding Songs, Rajput Women
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(1) Atifa Nasir
Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women Studies, Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Nasir, A. (2021). In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies. Global Sociological Review, VI(II), 142-152. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-II).18
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CHICAGO : Nasir, Atifa. 2021. "In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies." Global Sociological Review, VI (II): 142-152 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-II).18
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HARVARD : NASIR, A. 2021. In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies. Global Sociological Review, VI, 142-152.
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MHRA : Nasir, Atifa. 2021. "In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies." Global Sociological Review, VI: 142-152
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MLA : Nasir, Atifa. "In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies." Global Sociological Review, VI.II (2021): 142-152 Print.
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OXFORD : Nasir, Atifa (2021), "In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies", Global Sociological Review, VI (II), 142-152
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TURABIAN : Nasir, Atifa. "In Search of Folk Wedding Songs: A Woman Researcher’s Challenges in Family Folkloric Studies." Global Sociological Review VI, no. II (2021): 142-152. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-II).18