By F. Bouchetoux
A choice for brand new equipment for anthropology, this booklet explores the character of anthropological wisdom and the stipulations of integration and verbal exchange with humans. beginning with an research of anthropologists' guilt, Fan addresses problems with reflexivity, reciprocity, and recognize, then builds in this to judge how researchers generate wisdom.
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How do anthropologists understand, not just the process but the conditions of integration? The next section argues that integration in the field routinely fails, either because it “lacks” or because it is so “overwhelming” that it cannot be appropriately dealt with. Lacks and excesses of integration may even strangely coexist. No integration: the “lacks” Boredom and exasperations Fieldwork is emotionally straining. ” There were “many difficult moments” when Rethmann (2007: 51) “hated fieldwork,” moments she associated with failure.
The philosophical “I” may refer to a collective and rather impersonal human condition, or simply me as opposed to everyone else. And for Pihlström (2011: 109–110) my writing should confess my own guilt, not someone else’s or that of human beings in general. Likewise and as suggested above, anthropology is “inherently autobiographic” (Fabian, 1983: 87), hence there is a sense in which “all social science is autobiographical” (Agar, 1980: 42). Knowledge about others begins with the self—this observation is sure to give writers a headache.
Not only are anthropologists likely to be ashamed of their predecessors, they also fear that posterity might see comparable mistakes in what they do. Many researchers consequently introduce the reflexive device, whose therapeutic function alleviates shame. This self-treatment has a sacred dimension insofar as it may resort to self-punishment, to the masochist repentance of the sinner. ” In this way much anthropological writing reveals its own weakness in order to conceal, in a rather cowardly and perverse fashion, the weaknesses of the human heart; and I cannot but love-and-hate the ingenuous religiosity embedded in such ingenious writing tricks.