Maybe you are overrating the contribution you were actually making?
Look, when she really didn't like you she might have realized that it wouldn't be very easy to give an objective account of what you were actually doing. So maybe it was the best choice to leave you out, for the sake of a more or less accurate and objective narrative.
And you write that you both didn't like eachother. Now you don't make the impression of being very objective about her either.
By the way: the book is supposed to be an ethnographic study, not a piece of journalism. But what she was doing as a whole was obviously exactly that: to immerse herself into an environment and a theme that definitely wasn't her default setting...
Maybe you are overrating the
Maybe you are overrating the contribution you were actually making?
Look, when she really didn't like you she might have realized that it wouldn't be very easy to give an objective account of what you were actually doing. So maybe it was the best choice to leave you out, for the sake of a more or less accurate and objective narrative.
And you write that you both didn't like eachother. Now you don't make the impression of being very objective about her either.
By the way: the book is supposed to be an ethnographic study, not a piece of journalism. But what she was doing as a whole was obviously exactly that: to immerse herself into an environment and a theme that definitely wasn't her default setting...