“Just a Hobo”
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2003.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : The purpose of ethnography is to produce a holistic description of the culture under scrutiny. Although ethnographic writing is often described as objective, every ethnographic description is always biased by an underlying theory. Through a discussion of how the phenomenon of shamanism has been treated by ethnographers the author shows that better ethnographies could be obtained by making theoretical presuppositions explicit and visible.
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The purpose of ethnography is to produce a holistic description of the culture under scrutiny. Although ethnographic writing is often described as objective, every ethnographic description is always biased by an underlying theory. Through a discussion of how the phenomenon of shamanism has been treated by ethnographers the author shows that better ethnographies could be obtained by making theoretical presuppositions explicit and visible.
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