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ISBN: 0520035291

ISBN13: 9780520035294

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

Name: False Starts and New Departures
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By Paul Rabinow

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Book Overview

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520035291

ISBN13:9780520035294

Release Date:December 1977

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.47 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

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Rated 5 stars
False Starts and New Departures

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 27, 2008

For anthropologists, doing fieldwork is a kind of rite of passage, a process of initiation into the profession as well as a marker which separates anthropologists from other social scientists who "don't do fieldwork". But at the time when Paul Rabinow wrote his Reflections, there were surprisingly little books attempting to define what fieldwork is and giving aspiring anthropologists some tools and lessons on how to pursue...

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How much objectivity could you keep while studying a people?

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 26, 2000

First off, this is not a book about the Moroccan people. It is a book about the ethnographer's experience with a community of Moroccan people. I assume that, somewhere out there, is a university press publication of his actual findings gathering dust on a shelf. Instead, this book is about some of the more uncomfortable aspects of anthropology and the destroying of illusions.Questions of finding the outsider's insider (someone...

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Reflecting on reflection

By Thriftbooks.com User, August 15, 2000

Not only is this book elegantly written, but it also is a must for those seriously considering entering the everchanging field of anthropology. It is meant to be a reflection on Dr. Rabinow's experiences, which can prepare others for what they may encounter in their own "fields."

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