| Titre | De l'ethnographie comme fiction. Conrad et Malinowski | |
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| Auteur | James Clifford | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 97-98, 1985 L'ethnographie / Grèce | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Le texte ethnographique |
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| Page | 47-67 | |
| Résumé anglais |
On Ethnography Considered as a Fiction. About Conrad and Malinowski.
This essay explores the modem predicament of an « ethnographie » subjectivity, a self situated as participant-observer in specific cultural and linguistic systems. The similar experiences of Joseph Conrad and Bronislaw Malinowski — cosmopolitan émigrés struggling into English identities and, as writers, into the English symbolic world — are taken as paradigmatic. The « made up », fictionnal quality of their identities and images of cultural order is pursued through a close comparison of Malinowski's field diary (and Argonauts of the Western Pacific) with Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Present horizons for ethnographic writing are suggested as well as some historical limits on ethnographic irony, the anthropological culture concept, and related notions of language. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1985_num_97_1_3059 |
