Metoda w antropologii. Uwagi na marginesie „Refleksji na temat badań terenowych w Maroku” Paula Rabinowa
Abstract
Field research is a special kind of cognitive procedure. Paul Rabinow, like
no other in the history of anthropology, had revealed the „anatomy“ of this procedure
characterizing cognitive activities involved in this kind of research. "Reflections
on Fieldwork in Morocco" tell us about the identity of anthropology
more than some of the discussions which took up on this subject. Rabinow delivers
a critical evaluation of the modernist model of anthropology by disclosing
discrepancies between assumptions and methods and actual conditions of acquiring
knowledge about investigated reality. But what is even more important: he
demythicizes anthropology by demonstrating that what is rendered by anthropology
is not the reality itself but its presentation. Rabinow gives thereby a new
identity to anthropology. The anthropology is still defined by the method of
ethnographic fieldwork but this method is conceived as a reconstruction of a
process of interpersonal interaction.
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