Ethnography as tradition in Africa

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Main Author: Pina-Cabral, Joao
Publication Date: 2011
Format: Article
Language: eng
Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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Summary: “Ethnography as tradition in Africa” is our way of stressing that our discipline’s favoured methodology is an embodied engagement with the human world with roots in forms of curiosity that are very ancient; they emerged long before academic anthropology was constituted in the mid-nineteenth century. Ethnography, thus, is not open to being reinvented at every new juncture, either as a mode of scientific analysis or as a mode of reporting on experience. In this sense, we too stand in the shoulders of giants. Only seen from the perspective of that historical succession can the contemporary ethnographies we collect in this dossier achieve the full plenitude of their meaning.
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title Ethnography as tradition in Africa
spellingShingle Ethnography as tradition in Africa
Pina-Cabral, Joao
ethnography
tradition
Africa
Social Anthropology
History of the Social Sciences
Aporia
title_short Ethnography as tradition in Africa
title_full Ethnography as tradition in Africa
title_fullStr Ethnography as tradition in Africa
title_full_unstemmed Ethnography as tradition in Africa
title_sort Ethnography as tradition in Africa
author Pina-Cabral, Joao
author_facet Pina-Cabral, Joao
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Pina-Cabral, Joao
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv ethnography
tradition
Africa
Social Anthropology
History of the Social Sciences
Aporia
topic ethnography
tradition
Africa
Social Anthropology
History of the Social Sciences
Aporia
description “Ethnography as tradition in Africa” is our way of stressing that our discipline’s favoured methodology is an embodied engagement with the human world with roots in forms of curiosity that are very ancient; they emerged long before academic anthropology was constituted in the mid-nineteenth century. Ethnography, thus, is not open to being reinvented at every new juncture, either as a mode of scientific analysis or as a mode of reporting on experience. In this sense, we too stand in the shoulders of giants. Only seen from the perspective of that historical succession can the contemporary ethnographies we collect in this dossier achieve the full plenitude of their meaning.
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