Abstract
Aim. The aim of this paper is to depict difficulties in presenting ethnographically collected narratives - recorded and transcripted – as written texts. Multifaceted fieldwork experience when translated into form required in academic work is unavoidably reduced. It losts variety of aspects impossible to express just by written language required by academic discourse. Simultaneously written language is influencing and shaping pre-textual fieldwork experience.
 Method. The study is a theoretical afterthought based on the fieldwork experience gained during research concerning modes of constructing reminiscent narratives in one of lower-silesian villages in years 2013-2016. 
 Resullt and Conclusions. The analysis shows indispensable impact of medium of written language of process of gaining and presenting ethnographical knowledge. It presents its influence and limitations in the process of building fieldwork experience.
Highlights
The opening story shows indissoluble combination of two factors shaping an ethnographic experience: physical and textual
I had not visited the village for months and I was supposed to start the writing process of my thesis based on that research and I was facing the problem: how to capture multifaceted ethnographic experience in an academic written text? The problem might seem insigniÞcant if construction of narratives is concerned
In the researcher’s case that communicational background is based on her previous Þeldwork experience – she learns to follow actors and events that can be found beyond visible material data by recognising “ethnographical events” in different Þelds (Rakowski, 2018, p.17)
Summary
The opening story shows indissoluble combination of two factors shaping an ethnographic experience: physical and textual. I had not visited the village for months and I was supposed to start the writing process of my thesis based on that research and I was facing the problem: how to capture multifaceted ethnographic experience in an academic written text?
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