From paradigm to paradox – contemporary mainstream theoretical reflections for fieldwork in lowland South America
Journal Title: Etnografia. Praktyki. Teorie. Doświadczenia / Ethnography. Practices, Theories, Experiences - Year 2019, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
This essay intends to address perspectives and reflections on nature and culture in the contemporary anthropological literature . Dialogically engaging with Ingold, Wag- ner, Viveiros de Castro, Descola and Strathern, I aim to demonstrate the implications of understanding culture as an axiomatic point of differentiation of human nature, or as re-elaboration of materiality through human action . This reflection calls us to rethink the Western scientific epistemology, along with its presupposed ontological order . Such questioning unfolds in the elaboration of the ethnographic text, which in turn is the result of a dialectical process that speaks not only of one culture, but of two, and especially of our gaze on the Other . In the ethnographic text, an anthropologist and a native are the potential locus of reproduction of their culture . Through this approach we extend the implications of epistemological concerns to fieldwork practices and to the art of under- standing other knowledge systems .
Authors and Affiliations
Virgílio Bomfil Neto
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP687870
- DOI https://doi.org/10.26881/etno.2019.5.10
- Views 190
- Downloads 0
The Inter-University Anthropology Conference – Anthropology in the eyes of beginner researchers / Międzyuczelniana Konferencja Antropologiczna – antropologia w oczach młodych adeptów
Clifford Geertz noted that anthropology is the art of writing. Anthropological knowledge reinforces forging of one’s own field experience in the narrative about this experience. One possible form of this narrative is an...
Arranging the world anew. Re-creation of Tim Ingold’s concept/idea (part II) / Ułożyć świat na nowo. Rekonstrukcja koncepcji Tima Ingolda (cz. II)
The aim of this paper is a reconstruction of Tim Ingold’s theoretical proposal. The present text is the second of a three-part study t hat w ill be published in subsequent volumes of “Ethnography”. This section presents...
Ethnography as a process. Editorial introduction / Etnografia jako proces. Wprowadzenie redakcyjne
Editorial introduction
Can fieldwork ensure anthropology’s empiricism? / Badania terenowe jako gwarancja empiryzmu antropologii?
This paper addresses the influence of a research method on the identity of anthropology as a discipline. Usingmy own academic biography as a point of departure, Iwould like to situate this issue in a wide historical pers...
Współcześni Indianie Ojibway Impresje z wyjazdu do Kanady / The present-day Ojibway: Impressions from a trip to Canada
The purpose of this article is to share our impressions and experiences from the anthropo- logical research focusing on the Ontario Ojibwa First Nation, which was our first expedi- tion outside of Europe . We focused on...