The Debate’s Conjuncture
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| Data de Publicação: | 2022 |
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Resumo: | Th e present collection of papers refl ects a forum debate entitled ‘Doubt and Determination’ that took place at the Lisbon EASA2020 conference. Th e original question that set off our debate concerned the nature of the ethnographic gesture – that is, the decision to engage intensively with a particular form of life in order to situate it within a more common world. We distinguished two analytical moments in the ethnographic gesture (‘going out there’ and ‘returning’) and how they combined two contradictory dispositions: (i) the ind eterminacy and underdetermination of the actual events one experiences and (ii) the need to measure some things by relation to other things in order to determine a ‘fi eld’ and write an ethnography. Of course, there will never be a seamless fi t between the ambiguity of uncertainty and the disambiguation of determination. Th erefore, by its very character as a practice situated historically, ethnography will ever remain incomplete. |
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The Debate’s Conjuncturedeterminationdoubtentanglementethnographyparticipant observationTh e present collection of papers refl ects a forum debate entitled ‘Doubt and Determination’ that took place at the Lisbon EASA2020 conference. Th e original question that set off our debate concerned the nature of the ethnographic gesture – that is, the decision to engage intensively with a particular form of life in order to situate it within a more common world. We distinguished two analytical moments in the ethnographic gesture (‘going out there’ and ‘returning’) and how they combined two contradictory dispositions: (i) the ind eterminacy and underdetermination of the actual events one experiences and (ii) the need to measure some things by relation to other things in order to determine a ‘fi eld’ and write an ethnography. Of course, there will never be a seamless fi t between the ambiguity of uncertainty and the disambiguation of determination. Th erefore, by its very character as a practice situated historically, ethnography will ever remain incomplete.Repositório da Universidade de LisboaPina-Cabral, Joao2022-09-14T15:08:24Z20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/54473engPina-Cabral, João (2022). The debate's conjecture: An Introduction [A Debate on Ethnographic Determination: Lisbon EASA 2020.]Social Anthropology, 30 (1), pp. 63-730964-028210.3167/saas.2022.300105info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T17:00:52Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/54473Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T22:05:17.942897Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Th e present collection of papers refl ects a forum debate entitled ‘Doubt and Determination’ that took place at the Lisbon EASA2020 conference. Th e original question that set off our debate concerned the nature of the ethnographic gesture – that is, the decision to engage intensively with a particular form of life in order to situate it within a more common world. We distinguished two analytical moments in the ethnographic gesture (‘going out there’ and ‘returning’) and how they combined two contradictory dispositions: (i) the ind eterminacy and underdetermination of the actual events one experiences and (ii) the need to measure some things by relation to other things in order to determine a ‘fi eld’ and write an ethnography. Of course, there will never be a seamless fi t between the ambiguity of uncertainty and the disambiguation of determination. Th erefore, by its very character as a practice situated historically, ethnography will ever remain incomplete. |
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