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Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

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Common Sense
Control School Teachers
cross-cultural analysis
Cultural Re-creation
Eau De Vie
empirical social theory
epistemology of science
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ethnographic methodology
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Future Practices
Inventive Edge
Kalahari Debate
Kirsten Hastrup
Larger Social Hierarchy
Local Knowledge
Mafisa System
Make Sense
Mayan Language
Mother Formulas
Om Behaviour
Peter Hervik
qualitative fieldwork
Social Action Theory
Star Calendars
subjectivity in research
Traditional Peasant Culture
transformation of cultural knowledge
Vice Versa
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415106580
  • Weight: 490g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jul 1994
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the ethnographic experience to the analytical results, showing how fieldwork enables the ethnographer to arrive at an understanding, not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the processes by which cultures and societies are transformed. The contributors challenge the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, redefine what we should mean by `empirical' and demonstrate the complexity of present-day epistemological problems through concrete examples. By demystifying subjectivity in the ethnographic process and re-emphasizing the vital position of fieldwork, they do much to renew confidence in the anthropological project of comprehending the world.