How much do we know about our cultures? The question looks rhetorical but consider it a direct affront to us. If we—“natives” and inhabitants—do not study our cultures, then how can we understand it? Know more:
How much do we know about our cultures? The question looks rhetorical but consider it a direct affront to us. If we—“natives” and inhabitants—do not study our cultures, then how can we understand it? Without such understanding, how can we ever own it?
The student of anthropology, however, must have known by this time that, after the death of Malinowski, his wife stumbled upon a diary showing his strong aversion against the “natives” whose lives he fastidiously praised as important not only to themselves but to the anthropologist’s body of knowledge. That must have been a foreboding of the future when anthropologists presently critique their training and the skills they have developed for data gathering and analysis.
For Ingold, a position Aishima appears to espouse, anthropology is “a practice of observation grounded in participatory dialogue.” This brings to the fore the old caricature of the anthropologists as smug and detached. We are seeing in this book a new claim that eschews the practice of making field sites as “sites” or “cases.
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