Intersubjective imagination: identity and community building within Dungeons & Dragons

here the study of anthropology normally collects musings of alternative understandings within one world, another approach might rest instead within considering those understandings as separate worlds altogether: an ontological matter rather than epistemological. Structures of the individual and collective mind secure worlds to make sense within their context. Oftentimes it seems the anthropologist is not exploring different ways in which people think about the same thing but that the field they enter is a new realm completely. My recent field studies transported me to a realm where I found another role of the anthropologist can be to clone itself to reflect on the field with two sets of senses: those of the anthropologist in their original world and of the anthropologist in the new world. Within this ethnography, that clone can be taken just about literally. In order to explain myself, beginning with a description of my introduction to the field seems most accommodating.... After all, ‘it’s a game of the imagination, Leonard. Paint a picture.’ 1