Out of the Study and Into the Field : : Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology / / ed. by Robert Parkin, Anne de Sales.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bensa, Alban,; Buckner, Margaret,; Capone, Stefania,; Charuty, Giordana,; Henley, Paul,; MacClancy, Jeremy,; Parkes, Peter,; Parkin, Robert,; Rival, Laura,; Rivière, Peter,; Sales, Anne de,; Toffin, Gérard,
• HerausgeberIn: Parkin, Robert,; Sales, Anne de,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generally skeptical of theory. While there are contrasts between the two traditions, this is essentially a false view. It is this aspect of French anthropology that this collection addresses, in the belief that the neglect of many of these figures outside France is seriously distorting our view of the French tradition of anthropology overall. At the same time, the collection will provide a positive view of the French tradition of ethnography, stressing its combination of technical competence and the sympathies of its practitioners for its various ethnographic subjects.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF AUTHORS DISCUSSED IN THIS VOLUME -- PREFACE -- Introduction ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE AND THEORY IN FRANCE -- Chapter 1 ‘KEEPING YOUR EYES OPEN’: ARNOLD VAN GENNEP AND THE AUTONOMY OF THE FOLKLORISTIC -- Chapter 2 CANONICAL ETHNOGRAPHY: HANOTEAU AND LETOURNEUX ON KABYLE COMMUNAL LAW -- Chapter 3 POSTCARDS AT THE SERVICE OF THE IMAGINARY: JEAN ROUCH, SHARED ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINÉ-TRANCE -- Chapter 4 ERIC DE DAMPIERRE AND THE ART OF FIELDWORK -- Chapter 5 WHAT SORT OF ANTHROPOLOGIST WAS PAUL RIVET? -- Chapter 6 ALFRED MÉTRAUX: EMPIRICIST AND ROMANTICIST -- Chapter 7 ROGER BASTIDE OR THE ‘DARKNESSES OF ALTERITY’ -- Chapter 8 THE ART AND CRAFT OF ETHNOGRAPHY: LUCIEN BERNOT 1919–1993 -- Chapter 9 ANDRÉ-GEORGES HAUDRICOURT: A THOROUGH MATERIALIST -- Chapter 10 LOUIS DUMONT: FROM MUSEOLOGY TO STRUCTURALISM VIA INDIA -- Chapter 11 WILL THE REAL MAURICE LEENHARDT PLEASE STAND UP? FOUR ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN SEARCH OF AN ANCESTOR -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- NAME INDEX