The ethnography as category of thought in modern anthropology

Authors

  • Gilmar Rocha Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Minas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v15i14-15p99-114

Keywords:

Ethnography. Performance. Narrative. Marcel Mauss

Abstract

The innumerous possibilities and
issues, put forward by ethnography to epistemo-
logical reflection in anthropology, makes it an im-
portant category of thought, capable of revealing
the meaning of anthropologists works, i.e., their
making. theerefore, ethnography can be seen as a
genre of performance whose meaning surpasses the
frontiers of native culture reaching the cultural field
of the anthropologist. Performance, in this study,
represents a mode of social auto-reflexivity in which
the anthropologist, by making use of narrative,
searches to enlarge the “field” of anthropology. the
goal of this text is to point out a few moments in
this process of ethnographic reflexivity, pointing
out the writings of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) as a
privileged example.

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Author Biography

  • Gilmar Rocha, Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Minas
    Professor do Departamento de Ciências Sociais / PUC - Minas
    Doutor em Ciências Humanas (Antropologia Cultural) / UFRJ

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Published

2006-03-30

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 14-15 (2006)

Section

Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

Rocha, G. (2006). The ethnography as category of thought in modern anthropology. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 15(14-15), 99-114. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v15i14-15p99-114