Re: CFP: Postmod ling anth

• Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
• Next message: TinaH53374: "Book search: Gulliver"
• Previous message: Thomas Pardoe: "What Is Natural?"
• Maybe in reply to: Cameron Laird: "CFP: Postmod ling anth"

claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) writes:
| ...
| >Specifically, postmodern anthropologists have been charged with staging
| >dialogues between ethnographers and their subjects in
| >ethnographies without sufficient attention to the politics of the
| >ethnographic encounter (Abu-Lughod 1993, Gal 1989), ...

geroldf@sdd.hp.com (Gerold Firl):
| The postmodern anthropologist has been taken to task for insufficient
| consideration of the *politics* of the ethnographic encounter! Who cares
| about the culture, who cares about the language, the important question is
| whether the "anthropologist" was wearing the right tie for the interview!

Are you saying that there's no politics in an ethnographic
encounter?

-- 

><  Gordon Fitch  ><  gcf@panix.com  ><

• Next message: TinaH53374: "Book search: Gulliver"
• Previous message: Thomas Pardoe: "What Is Natural?"
• Maybe in reply to: Cameron Laird: "CFP: Postmod ling anth"