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Ethnography as commentary: writing from the virtual archive
The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropological practice, argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. In this insightful study, he returns to the recording of a conversation he had with a ritual healer in the Congolese town of Lubumbashi more than three decades ago. Fabian's transcript and translation of the exchange have been deposited on a website (Language and Popular Culture in Africa), and in Ethnography as Commentary he provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive
Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive
The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropological practice, argues that virtual archives have the potential to shift the emphasis in ethnographic writing from the monograph to commentary. In this insightful study, he returns to the recording of a conversation he had with a ritual healer in the Congolese town of Lubumbashi more than three decades ago. Fabian's transcript and translation of the exchange have been deposited on a website (Language and Popular Culture in Africa), and in Ethnography as Commentary he provides a model of writing in the presence of a virtual archive.
Time and the work of anthropology: critical essays, 1971-1991
In: Studies in anthropology and history 3
World Affairs Online
Power and performance: ethnographic explorations through proverbial wisdom and theater in Shaba, Zaire
In: New directions in anthropological writing
Language and colonial power: the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo 1880-1938
In: African studies series 48
Dalsgaard, Steffen & Morten Nielsen (eds) (afterword by George Marcus). Time and the field. vi, 160 pp., bibliogrs. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. £17.50 (paper)
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 224-225
ISSN: 1467-9655
Cultural anthropology and the question of knowledge*
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 439-453
ISSN: 1467-9655
Although it helps to be aware of what philosophers think about knowledge, anthropologists can neither simply relegate their epistemological problems to, nor find solutions in, philosophy. In anthropology, knowing what and how we know is a practical, not just a theoretical, problem, one we face in all phases of our work, from field research to writing (and teaching). Historical recollections of debates since the 1960s are followed by consideration of two aspects of the knowledge question in our discipline: 'Knowledge of what?' and 'Whose knowledge?' Guided by reflections on knowledge and survival, the article ends by addressing the question of ethnographic evidence in the context of a current project.RésuméS'il est utile de savoir ce que les philosophes pensent de la connaissance, les anthropologues ne peuvent pas se contenter de déléguer à la philosophie pour leurs problèmes épistémologiques, ni d'y chercher des solutions. En anthropologie, le problème de savoir ce que l'on sait et comment on le sait n'est pas seulement théorique mais pratique ; nous le rencontrons à chaque phase de notre travail, des recherches sur le terrain à l'écriture et à l'enseignement. L'auteur fait suivre ici les rappels historiques des débats qui ont eu lieu depuis les années 1960 d'une analyse de deux aspects de la question des connaissances dans notre discipline : « connaissance de quoi ? » et « connaissance de qui ? » Guidé par une réflexion sur le savoir et la survie, l'article s'achève par l'examen de la question des preuves ethnographiques dans le contexte d'un projet en cours.
Correspondence
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 664-665
ISSN: 1467-9655
Virtual Archives and Ethnographic Writing: Commentary as a New Genre?
In: Current anthropology, Band 43, Heft 5, S. 775-786
ISSN: 1537-5382
CHARISMA, CANNABIS, AND THE CROSSING OF AFRICA
In: Cultural studies, Band 14, Heft 3-4, S. 405-429
ISSN: 1466-4348
Living and Dying
In: Out of Our MindsReason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa, S. 52-77
Travel, Exploration, and Occupation
In: Out of Our MindsReason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa, S. 23-51