The article explores the experiences of ethnology and cultural anthropology students during their first ethnographic fieldwork within the university course Ethnographic Laboratory. The author focuses on the sensitivities of young researchers, mostly members of Generation Z, on the emotions they experience when confronting social imaginaries that differ from their own values and worldviews, and on the strategies they adopt in the field. The paper highlights the emotional intensity of field encounters and the young researchers’ struggles with identity and sensitivity. The author concludes that the more distinctly articulated researchers’ own identity constructions become, the more emotionally challenging yet simultaneously the more valuable becomes their opening up to other ways of experiencing and conceptualizing reality.
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