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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author

By Paul Rabinow

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520933897
DOI
10.1525/9780520933897
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8376693 bytes)
Pages
208\206
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 13:13:05

Description

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.

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