Writing Anthropology: A Call for Uninhibited Methods (Palgrave Pivot) - Couverture rigide

Bouchetoux, Francois; Bouchetoux, Franocois

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1137404167 ISBN 13 : 9781137404169

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot, 2013

Synopsis

A call for new strategies for integrating and writing the field of anthropology, this book explores the nature of anthropological knowledge in general and the conditions of integration and communication with people in particular. Starting with an analysis of anthropologists’ guilt, which originates from both lacks and excesses of integration into communities of adoption, Bouchetoux addresses issues of reflexivity, reciprocity, honesty, and respect. He then builds on this critique to evaluate the process through which researchers generate knowledge. Using fieldwork in Europe, Africa, and Asia as inspiration, he harks back to positions explored in the 1980s when interactions between anthropology, literary studies, and philosophy were most intense. Parallels between these experiences and Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea lead to an understanding of fieldwork as a malaise whose symptoms (boredom, solitude, miscommunication) contain the seeds of its cure, unveiled in the eroticism of contingency and the possibility of an anthropology through emotions, not discourse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Francois Bouchetoux is Assistant Professor at I-Shou University, Taiwan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Pivot
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1137404167
• ISBN 13: 9781137404169
• Reliure: Tapa dura
• Nombre de pages: 130
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