The field diary is part of the ethnographer's job. It is merely a set of sparse heterogeneous notes. Its publication, respecting a chronological classification, creates the Romanesque fiction of an ethnographer-narrator. Censuring the publication of the diary implies that the original writing will not be censured. The censured materials do not relate to issues of privacy, but to the not (yet) intelligible.
ethnography; fiction; field diaries; objectification