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Study Day: What is a good anthropological proof? - Invitation

Dear colleagues,
I would like to invite all of you to participate in our first study day, organized by section 4 "translations". Convenors of the study day will be Richard Rottenburg, Thomas Kirsch, Jürgen Paul and myself. As some of you already know, the theme for the afternoon will be "What is a good anthropological proof?" In our discussion we aim to focus on broader questions of method and epistemology, themes which we hope to be relevant to all of you.

This is the choice of texts:

  • Ortner, Sherry B. 1984. Theory in anthropology since the sixties. Comparative Studies in Society and History 26 (1): 126-166. (a general introduction to important anthropological debates)
  • Clifford, James. 1986/1993. On ethnographic allegory. In Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography, hg. von Clifford, James. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 89-121.  (a contribution to the "writing culture" debate where the interface between anthropology and literature came into focus)
  • Appadurai, Arjun. 1988. Putting hierarchy in its place. Cultural Anthropology 3 (1): 36-49. (a postcolonial critique of the notion of "objectivity" and the idea of culture)
  • Latour, Bruno. 1988. The Politics of Explanation: an Alternative. In Knowledge and Reflexivity. New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge, hg. von Woolgar, Steve. London: Sage, 155-176. (a critique of reflexivity and an attempt to reevaluate scientific standards)

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