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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Presenting an ethnographic study about Morocco, this title describes a series of encounters with the author's 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.
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Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Forward by Robert N. Bellah Introduction 1 Remnants of a Dying Colonialism 2 Packaged Goods 3 Ali: An Insider's Outsider 4 Entering 5 Respectable Information 6 Transgression 7 Self-Consciousness 8 Friendship Conclusion Afterword by Pierre Bourdieu Selected Bibliography
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ISBN
9780520251779
Publisert
2007-05-01
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
227 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen (2004).