Reflections on fieldwork in morocco a quantum book university of california press. The major themes that rabinow will consistently pursue for the next decades are all incipiently present in these untimely reflections. Fieldwork in morocco 1977, to name but two classics of the genre. My anthropology professor borrowed reflections of fieldwork in morocco by paul rabinow to me, and i hastily read it. His major works include reflections on fieldwork in morocco 1977 and 2007, michel.
Reflections on fieldwork in morocco rabinow reflections. Buy a cheap copy of reflections on field work in morocco book by paul rabinow. Paul rabinow, in his book reflections on field work in morocco, claims to base his fieldwork on a phenomenological approach. 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. Reflections on fieldwork in morocco by paul rabinow goodreads. David crawfords critique of paul rabinows reflections on. Paul rabinow is the author of the foucault reader 4. Reflections on field work in morocco edition 2 available in paperback, nook book. Reflections on fieldwork in morocco a quantum book paul rabinow in this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, paul rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, paul rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do.
Cultural form and historical change in morocco, reflections on fieldwork in morocco. Rabinow s monograph is a deeply personal account about the excitement and frustrations embodied in the process of translating academic knowledge into the real world, the art of interpretation, and the simultaneous observation and experience of otherness using a modified phenomenological method. An anthropological reader second edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. These complementary themes and their historical relationship in anthropology are discussed in greater detail in genealogies for the present in cultural anthropology knauft 1996, pp. To what extent are the cultural data an artifact of the interaction between anthropologist and informants. Reflections summary ch 46 reflections on fieldwork in. Reflections on fieldwork in morocco a quantum book. Reflections on fieldwork in morocco book, 1977 worldcat. Reflections on fieldwork in morocco cliff notes paul. Reflections on fieldwork in morocco book by paul rabinow. It 19s thin, true, and easy to read, and quite a breath of air in the sea of anthropological books not dealing with fieldwork, which i. How do we weigh up knowing that mothers beat sons to prevent them from joining. The genealogy of a diary in response to rabinow s reflections of fieldwork in morocco article pdf available in. Buy reflections on field work in morocco 2nd edition by paul rabinow isbn.
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Rabinow takes the view that fieldwork is an independent cultural activity, valuable in its own right and worthy of narrative report. As a novice anthropologist of religion, picking my way slowly through the history of american anthropologyand conducting fieldwork at the same timeencountering rabinow was nothing less continue reading. Entering rabinow rab decides that the next move is to move to sidi lahcen sidi where he had previously attended the weddingsidi is a religious center. In preparation for writing an ethnographic monograph on fieldwork in yemen, i compare and contrast my field diary, written in 197879, with paul rabinow s reflections on fieldwork in morocco 1977. As a novice anthropologist of religion, picking my way slowly through the history of american anthropologyand conducting fieldwork at the same timeencountering rabinow was nothing less than an emancipating experience.
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