The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology

Tedlock, Dennis

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“…La nueva tarea de una antropología que se auto-proclama "post-moderna" (Marcus 1995) consiste en de-construir y desenmascarar los géneros etnográficos convencionales como recursos retóricos únicamente destinados a convencernos "de haber, de uno u otro modo, realmente `estado ahí´" (Geertz 1989:14). Para superar este tipo de "prosa aseverativa e inocencia literaria" (Geertz 1989:34), el foco de atención se desplaza del trabajo de campo en sí a su estetización cuasi-testimonial, para con ello sustituir los usuales relatos "análogos" por un discurso "dialógico" (Tedlock 1979).…”

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Hacia una etnografía doblemente reflexiva: Una propuesta desde la antropología de la interculturalidad

Dietz¹

2011

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Estimado lector/a:Gracias por descargar este artículo. El texto que está a punto de consultar es de acceso libre y gratuito gracias al trabajo y la colaboración desinteresada de un amplio colectivo de profesionales de nuestra disciplina.Usted puede ayudarnos a incrementar la calidad y a mantener la libre difusión de los contenidos de esta revista a través de su afiliación a la asociación AIBR:http://www.aibr.org/antropologia/aibr/socios.php La asociación a AIBR le proporcionará una serie de ventajas y privilegios, entre otros: Starting from the contemporary debate on ethnographic methodology in anthropology, this paper analyses how new methodological options arise throughout processes of educational interculturality and how these can nourish, rejuvenate and decolonize classical anthropological ethnography. The contrast between a postmodern anthropology and activist ethnography reveals possibilities for fruitfully complement social and political engagement with the classical canon of ethnography, which is here illustrated for the sphere of Intercultural Studies and the emerging field of what may be called an anthropology of interculturality. The resulting, "doubly reflexive ethnography" completes the contrast of emic and etic approaches through a emic-etic dialectical, structure-oriented perspective, which is particularly suitable for studying institutions and organizations whose actors co-reflect on the same research process as the anthropologist her/himself. This proposal is finally summed up in a three-dimensional heuristic research model, which combines semantic, pragmatic and syntactic dimensions of ethnography and which is particularly suited for "inter-cultural", "inter-lingual" and "inter-actor" diversity contexts. Recibir en su domicilio la revista impresa, en Europa y América (tres números anuales). 2 Derecho a voto en las asambleas de socios, así como a presentarse como candidato a la elección de su Junta Directiva. 3 Acceso al boletín de socios (tres números anuales), así como la información económica relativa a cuentas anuales de la asociación. 4 Beneficiarse de las reducciones de precio en congresos, cursos, libros y todos aquellos convenios a los que a nivel corporativo AIBR llegue con otras entidades (incluidos los congresos trianuales de la FAAEE Key words:Reflexive ethnography, activist research, anthropology of interculturality. resUmen:Partiendo del debate actual sobre la metodología etnográfica en antropología, este trabajo analiza cómo en el proceso de interculturalización educativa surgen nuevas opciones metodológicas y cómo estas pueden retroalimentar, rejuvenecer y descolonizar la clásica etnografía antropológica. El contraste entre una antropología postmoderna y de tendencia "academicista", por un lado, y una etnografía activista y militante, por otro, revela posibilidades de complementar fructíferamente el compromiso social y político con el canon clásico de la etnografía, lo cual aquí demostramos para el ámbito de los estudios interculturales y lo que se está dando por llamar la nacien...

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2011

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“…243-4). Space prevents an in-depth analysis, but suffice it to say that his processual model contributes much to our understanding of how, over time, a social text that may be 'read' is dialogued into being (See, Tedlock 1979Tedlock ,1983Bakhtin 1981;Page 1988). In the same way that both the ethnographic 'self and 'other' must learn to negotiate their relationship in their own best interest, the relationship between the imperial and colonial 'self-as-scientisf and 'other-asscientist' evolved as each party learned to negotiate the discourse of science in their own interest.…”

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Information control: The past and present career of scientific thinking in the European and colonized world

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1991

Reviews in Anthropology

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“…These exercises borrowed models from comparative literature, literary criticism and linguistics. For Clifford Ceertz, entire cultures become texts to interpret-especially far-away, romantic, steamy-and-hard-to-read cultures (Tedlock, 1979). The Confessional Tale (Van Maanen 1988:73-100), was introduced as a new type of ethnography.…”

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Text, Anti‐Text, and the Need for a Class‐based Hermeneutics

Casey¹

1991

Anthropology of Work Review

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Framing the QuestionThe tension between symbolic or interpretive anthropology, and a more historical or political-economic approach is often expressed as a debate between Text and anti-Text This issue seems to dominate much contemporary discussion on the status and future direction of the discipline. It is found in questions like: Does one tendency demonstrate greater efficacy or intellectual rigor than the other? Are these approaches diametrically opposed and antagonistic in nature? Or should they be integrated to form a new anthropological synthesis?This paper considers the diagnostic features and history of each approach in anthropology. I posit another alternative, based on the assessment that the text/anti-text debate represents a false dichotomy. It reflects an academic struggle over turf, not an opening or enlarging of the anthropological imagination. Neither approach has an organic claim to the concept of partisan commitment or authentic engagement of the people and communities we study. That is a political choice, a political commitment.In place of the text/anti-text debate, I would like to show how a class-based hermeneutics can facilitate a more complex understanding of social life; especially workingclass life. It is an engaged, partisan approach grounded in historically specific class relations and capitalist social structures. At the same time, it recognizes the layers of meaning embedded in ethnographic discourse. It appreciates the power and force of words (see Raymond Williams' treatment of Keywords, 1976).A class-based hermeneutics draws on the earlier efforts of women, African-Americans, and other nationallyoppressed people in anthropology who called upon historical experience, personal background, and political commitments to inform anthropological theory and practice-in order to construct feminist, anti-racist, and liberatory visions. In like fashion, a working-class hermeneutics proposes that class experience, class anger, and workingclass commitments can be a resource or point of leverage to enlarge and enrich anthropological practice.

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The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology

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Hacia una etnografía doblemente reflexiva: Una propuesta desde la antropología de la interculturalidad

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Information control: The past and present career of scientific thinking in the European and colonized world

Text, Anti‐Text, and the Need for a Class‐based Hermeneutics

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