At 'home' and 'away': Reconfiguring the field for late twentieth-century anthropology:

Virginia Caputo discusses what constitutes a "field" when an ethnographer attempts to conduct fieldwork at "home". She thinks that if only some of the fieldwork is "deemed 'appropriate' " then we will only learn from and read the ethnographies that are under this umbrella and never broaden our horizons by stretching the umbrella to cover "unorthodox" anthropological arenas. (p.19).
I found it interesting when Caputo discussed how viewing culture as a "discrete self-contained entity" put anthropology as having a "colonial view of the world". When we set the boundaries of fieldwork around the "primitive" cultures that are far away, we thereby enhance the colonial way of thinking that the "other" is "primitive" and these cultures are the ones that are to be studied in order to be under the umbrella of "true fieldwork". She discusses the need for expansion of anthropological boundaries and as a humble student who has much more to study, I agree thus far.