Deset antiteza jednom postizmu u antropologiji
Ten Antitheses to a Post-ism in Anthropology

Author(s): Ivan Kovačević
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Methodology and research technology
Published by: Srpski genealoški centar
Keywords: postmodernism;anthropology;ethnography; methodology; science
Summary/Abstract: This paper challenges the conception that postmodernism can only be described in postmodernist terms. I claim that theory of ethnography was never part of general anthropological methodology. Furthermore - despite numerous efforts - it never was nor will be a theory at all, but only a discussion of techniques of data collection. Once we formulate the problem, find a location in time and space in which it can best be tested, and confront our hypotheses with either corroborating or falsifying facts, we will be able to abandon the idea - that was being grounded both in American anthropology and Serbian ethnology for centuries - that science begins with collecting facts. Gathering around the already weakened anthropological center would enable us to comprehend the disciplinary damage from wasting very limited human resources. Therefore, I plead for the concentration around the core of anthropology, which is already so vast that it barely allows our discipline.

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