Pre-textual Ethnographies: Challenging the phenomenological level of anthropological knowledge-making - Hardcover

Tomasz Rakowski

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907774475 ISBN 13: 9781907774478

Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Anthropologists often have fieldwork experiences that are not explicitly analysed in their writings, though they nevertheless contribute to and shape their ethnographic understandings, and can resonate throughout their work for many years . The task of this volume is precisely to uncover these layers of anthropological knowledge-making. Contributors take on the challenge of reconstructing the ways in which they originally entered the worlds of research subjects their anthropological Others by focusing on pre-textual and deeply phenomenological processes of perceiving, noting, listening and sensing. Drawing on a wide range of research experiences with the Dogon in Mali, immigrant football players in Spain, the Inuit of the Far North, Filipino transnational families, miners in Poland and students in Scotland this book goes beyond an exploration of the development of increased ethnographic sensitivity towards words or actions. It also commences the foundational project of developing a new language for building anthropological works, one stemming from recurring acts of participation, and rooted primarily in the pre-textual worlds of the tacit, often non-visible, and intense experiences that exceed the limitations of conventional textual accounts.

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About the Author

Tomasz Rakowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. He is also a medical doctor, a specialist in accident and emergency medicine. His research interests include: anthropology and social art, phenomenology, pre-textual ethnography, studies on poverty and social trauma, bottom-up development in Poland and Mongolia. Recently he published Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness: An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland (2016). Helena Patzer is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, CzechAcademy of Sciences, in Prague. Her research interests include the anthropologyof migration and mobility, the critical anthropology of development, and heritage and urban studies. She has done fieldwork in the Philippines and inFilipino migrant communities in the United States and Denmark, focusing on transnational family life and diaspora involvement in development. She is the director of an ethnographic film, Money Tree (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907774475
• ISBN 13: 9781907774478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Tomasz Rakowski, Helena Patzer