Termin:
12.01.2012 16:00 - 17:30
Ort:
Zentrum Asienwissenschaften und Sozialanthropologie
Apostelgasse 23
1030 Wien
Kontakt:
Dr. Gebhard Fartacek
Institut für Sozialanthropologie
Zentrum Asienwissenschaften und Sozialanthropologie
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Apostelgasse 23
1030 Wien
T +43 1 51581 6454
gebhard.fartacek@oeaw.ac.at
www.oeaw.ac.at/sozant/
Uncomfortable Antinomies: Going Beyond Methodological Nationalism in Social and Cultural Anthropology
David Gellner (Oxford)
This paper examines how anthropology has coped with the massive social and political changes since 1960 that have transformed its traditional subject matter and put into question its traditional methodology of participant observation. It considers George Marcus’s well-known proposal for multi-sited ethnography and the research programme of global ethnography put forward by Michael Burawoy. Although the ideal of holism has been abandoned in some quarters, I argue that it should be retained, despite the fact that it is in tension with the equally necessary awareness of flux, flow, and transnational links.
