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Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe
Publication . Pina-Cabral, Joao
This article examines the mysterious side of ‘company’, a fundamental aspect of human existence, exemplifying it with an ethnographic vignette about a dugout canoe in the mangroves of southern Bahia (Northeast Brazil). Inspired by Kant's proposal concerning aspects of world, the article distinguishes company both from empathy and from community, as distinct registers of human sociality. Being in company necessarily engages more than two persons inhabiting a common space; it involves an intersubjective encounter that has implications not only for what we do, but also for who we are and where we are. As they emerge into personhood from within company, persons necessarily experience the presence of third parties as a possible threat, inevitably giving rise to contradictory emotions: there is as much fear and conflict as peace within company, for it brings together entities with divergent interests and combines persons and objects in the world. The article addresses the way in which companionship engages power relations, by reference both to gender and to control over land.
Três etnografias nas décadas de 1960-1970: os Fataluku
Publication . Viegas, Susana de Matos
‘of evident invisibles’: Ethnography as intermediation
Publication . Pina-Cabral, Joao
Evident invisibles emerge in the ethnographic encounter which change the whence and the whither of the ethnographic gesture. Long ago, Margaret Mead critiqued anthropologists for ignoring ‘the world in between’ that makes their fieldwork possible – this article takes the argument a step further, proposing that all ethnographic encounters are fundamentally ‘amidst’. Thus, it calls for a shift from translation to intermediation as the guiding trope of ethnography. Although the practice of ethnography requires the objectification of a ‘field’, metaphysical pluralism remains the fundamental condition of ethnographic intermediation. In light of that, the article critiques (a) the practice of describing our main methodological disposition as ‘participant observation’, arguing instead for the older term ‘intensive ethnographic research’; and (b) the implicit use of the trope of ethnography-astranslation. Ethnographic examples are taken from the author’s own fieldwork in the coastal mangroves of southern Bahia (northeast Brazil) in the late 2000s.
Mutualidade e conhecimento etnográfico
Publication . Viegas, Susana de Matos; Mapril, José
Um dos mais difíceis desafios colocados a um antropólogo é o de explicar a uma audiência de colegas de diversas áreas disciplinares como é que no processo de trabalho de campo vamos reorientando a nossa análise, hipóteses e interpretações. Contrariando a ideia de que esta reorientação resulta de uma espécie de transcendência da produção etnográfica, onde os imprevistos seriam simples experiências autorais, neste texto, onde lançamos o debate deste dossiê, salientamos a dimensão processualista e intersubjetiva do conhecimento onde os imprevistos se integram: o facto de a etnografia se produzir no seio de relações sociais. A mutualidade aparece aqui como um aparato conceptual que descreve o tipo de interlocução – de “revelação partilhada” – que sustenta o próprio conhecimento etnográfico.
It is commonly recognized that for anthropologists it is challenging to explain for an audience of scholars how the redirection of analysis occurs during fieldwork. Contrary to the idea that this reorientation results from a kind of transcendental principle where the unexpected is marginal, in this article, that launches this dossier, we contradict that idea of transcendence, calling attention to the processual and intersubjective nature of anthropological epistemologies – the fact that ethnography is constituted in relationships. Mutuality is here discussed as a conceptual tool that describes the specificity of those relationships – namely, the “shared revelation” – in the making of ethnographical knowledge.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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3599-PPCDT
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PTDC/CS-ANT/102957/2008