An Anthropologist in Dialogue: Living with Villagers, Discussing Human Rights, and Looking beyond Casablanc

• Autores: Kevin Dwyer
• Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 55, 2, 2020, págs. 173-208
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author recounts his relationship to Morocco over five decades ‒ initial contact with Morocco, then work on his doctoral dissertation and his three books addressing different aspects of Moroccan society ‒ and relates how each project changed as it progressed, how and why he went from one project to another and how, sensing the uniqueness of his encounters with individual Moroccans, he sought to incorporate their words in his writings. In choosing different forms of “dialogue” in response to the different situations and aims of each of his books, and in relating these to the theme of the “wager,” the author encourages anthropologists to recognize their own vulnerability and that of their discipline and society, and promotes a critical approach to his own work and to relationships between societies and between individuals and society. Returning frequently to Morocco over five decades, the author presents some of the many entanglements between his Moroccan experiences and his personal life, and discusses the new challenges that arise as his first book, "Moroccan Dialogues", is translated into Arabic, and as his relationship to Morocco continues.