In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.

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Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen (2004).



Inhalt

Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
Forward by Robert N. Bellah

Introduction

1 Remnants of a Dying Colonialism
2 Packaged Goods
3 Ali: An Insider's Outsider
4 Entering
5 Respectable Information
6 Transgression
7 Self-Consciousness
8 Friendship

Conclusion

Afterword by Pierre Bourdieu

Selected Bibliography

Titel
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Untertitel
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
EAN
9780520933897
ISBN
978-0-520-93389-7
Format
E-Book (epub)
Veröffentlichung
05.08.2016
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Anzahl Seiten
208
Jahr
2016
Untertitel
Englisch
Auflage
2. Auflage