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Works and Lives - The Anthropologist as Author (Paperback, New edition)
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The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and
irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories--this is
magic, that is technology--has long since been exploded. What it is
instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of
writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to
those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the
examination of it as such has been impeded by several
considerations, none of them very reasonable. One of these,
especially weighty among the producers, has been simply that it is
an unanthropological sort of thing to do. What a proper
ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places,
coming back with information about how people live there, and
making that information available to the professional community in
practical form, not lounging about in libraries reflecting on
literary questions. Excessive concern, which in practice usually
means any concern at all, with how ethnographic texts are
constructed seems like an unhealthy self-absorption--time wasting
at best, hypochondriacal at worst. The advantage of shifting at
least part of our attention from the fascinations of field work,
which have held us so long in thrall, to those of writing is not
only that this difficulty will become more clearly understood, but
also that we shall learn to read with a more percipient eye. A
hundred and fifteen years (if we date our profession, as
conventionally, from Tylor) of asseverational prose and literary
innocence is long enough.
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