2022
DOI: 10.3167/saas.2022.300108
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Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)

Abstract: English Abstract: Basing itself in the three aspects of the world that Kant proposed (as source, as domain and as limit), this article argues that the ethnographic gesture is correspondingly marked by three registers of encounter: empathy, company, community. Taking recourse to an ethnographic vignette about an encounter with a man on a bike, it explores the sense of community that marked my ethnographic presence in Alto Minho (northwest Portugal) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The article proposes that et… Show more

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“…This is why I am blurry about the details, as I took no notes and made no attempt to clarify or explain it anthropologically. Ethnographic accounts change an interactive event one has witnessed into a narrative, but one of a very particular kind; they transform an experience into 'ethnographic evidence', the description of a determinable conjuncture of human encounter (see Pina-Cabral 2022c, 2022d. In this article, I make an effort to move away from the 'natural attitude' that characterized my first response.…”
Section: The Natural Attitudementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is why I am blurry about the details, as I took no notes and made no attempt to clarify or explain it anthropologically. Ethnographic accounts change an interactive event one has witnessed into a narrative, but one of a very particular kind; they transform an experience into 'ethnographic evidence', the description of a determinable conjuncture of human encounter (see Pina-Cabral 2022c, 2022d. In this article, I make an effort to move away from the 'natural attitude' that characterized my first response.…”
Section: The Natural Attitudementioning
confidence: 99%