The reality of anthropology
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnos
- Vol. 52 (3-4) , 287-300
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1987.9981347
Abstract
The article concerns the continuity between anthropology and the reality it studies. Discovery and definition merge. This is substantiated by a discussion of ‘events’ and ‘worlds’. While the anthropologist becomes her own informant in the field, in the sense that her experience informs her ethnography, anthropology simultaneously shapes her discoveries. This simultaneity ultimately dissolves the distinction between subject and object, and from this point anthropology may recondition the conditions of science.Keywords
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