Exploitation in the Field

Blair, D. O. Hunter; Prattis, Iain

doi:10.1525/ahu.1994.19.1.36

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“…They can serve as a means of transcending our cultural differences and of expressing the "universal similansm" of the human condition (Blair and Prattis 1994). They can serve as a means of transcending our cultural differences and of expressing the "universal similansm" of the human condition (Blair and Prattis 1994).…”

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“…In a reflexive anthropology, dreams can, therefore, become a source of data and dialogue. They can serve as a means of transcending our cultural differences and of expressing the "universal similansm" of the human condition (Blair and Prattis 1994). This has been evidenced by a number of anthropologists who have recounted their dreams of the field (cf.…”

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On Becoming an Oromo Anthropologist: Dream, Self and Ritual Three Interpretations

Kassam

1999

Anthropol of Consciousness

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In this autobiographical essay, I reflect on my practice as an anthropologist through the medium of a dream experience. This dream occurred shortly before I was due to attend a ritual among the Booran Oromo in northern Kenya. In my discussion, I draw on analytical materialfrom anthropology, psychology, literature and philosophy. Using these different, but complementary approaches, I give three interpretations of the dream. The first two were provided to me by members of the culture, and are based on the indigenous Oromo knowledge system. The third proposes a self-analysis of the dream in terms of its structure and function. The entire exegesis is underpinned by an essay on dreams and dreaming by Foucault (1984). The analysis of the dream serves to situate my work in both theoretical and existential terms. The classic in this genre of writing is, of course, Levi-Strauss's (1973) Tristes Tropiques.

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On Becoming an Oromo Anthropologist: Dream, Self and Ritual Three Interpretations

Kassam

1999

Anthropol of Consciousness

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“…In a previous work co-authored with Derek Blair we suggested a solution to such exploitation by drawing on discursive strategies from the field of anthropological poetics. 2 This discourse was pioneered by Stanley Diamond at the New School of Social Research and has produced a number of landmarks in the attempt to change the nature of anthropological science.3 A new ethnography has emerged that begins with a renewed focus on the relationship between subject and object, anthropologist and cultural Other. 4 Our intention, however, is not to review this emerging ethnography, but rather to simply note it and focus on Reflections in particular and the strategy of anthropological poetics it evokes.…”

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