Abstract
In this chapter, Menahil Tahir discusses the role of her family, particularly her parents, in her ethnographic study. This text attempts to unravel not only how they were the means to exploring and understanding the field but also how the field shaped and reshaped itself owing to their presence. Through this reflexive account, she elaborates on how this co-construction of the field opened up new ethnographic possibilities. From facilitating her in navigating the field to filling in the 'visual' gap by providing verbal descriptions, her family played multifarious roles. In her concluding remarks, she draws the essence of problematising the limits of fieldwork when family became a part thereof.
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