The Debate’s Conjuncture

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Autor(a) principal: Pina-Cabral, Joao
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/54473
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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description 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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