Understanding Colonial Anthropology: on the Ethnographic Situation Approach
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Hassan Rachik [1]
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[1] Université Hassan II de Casablanca
Université Hassan II de Casablanca
Marruecos
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- Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 55, 2, 2020, págs. 19-22
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
I try to approach colonial anthropology as a social scientist thinking of the res ources and constraints of belonging to a community, in a formerly colonized country. The issue is not to oppose a ‘true ethnography’ to a ‘deforming ethnography,’ a ‘true national history’ to ‘a false colonial history’ or ‘a true Orient’ to ‘a mythical Orient.’ On the contrary, I aim to avoid treating colonial legacy as a sui generis object and analyze it with the same approach applicable to other postcolonial anthropological literature. I tried to understand the researchers by providing as much relevant information as possible about their social situations. Relevant information is inspired by the concept of ethnographic situation that includes cultural and ideological orientations, theoretical orientations, the social position of the researcher and the colonial context. The question is how those dimensions of the ethnographic situation affect the colonial anthropology
