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Title Ethnography as tradition in Africa
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48143
Date 2011
Author(s) Pina-Cabral, Joao
Abstract '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. - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Subject(s) ethnography; tradition; Africa; Social Anthropology; History of the Social Sciences; Aporia
Language eng
Relation https://journals.openedition.org/etnografica/991
Type of publication article
Rights openAccess
Identifier Pina-Cabral, Joao (2011). Ethnography as tradition in Africa. Etnográfica 15 (2): 379-407; 2182-2891; 10.4000/etnografica.991
Repository Lissabon - University of Lissabon
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