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Etnográfica
Print version ISSN 0873-6561
Abstract
BASTOS, José Gabriel Pereira. From the research by objectives to an anthropology of identity processes, based in a transdisciplinary and integrative point-of-view. Etnográfica [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.2, pp.341-364. ISSN 0873-6561.
A scientific journey oriented by anthropological goals began with social psychology, then delved into psychoanalysis and later cultural and social anthropology, always guided by clear objectives: trans-disciplinary integration; the quest for ethnographic experience as a complement of psychoanalytical experience; the construction of a structural-dynamic, post-rationalist approach; and the creation of research tools to be employed in the exploration of strategic objects, selected via theory (the dynamics of inter-ethnicity and of the multi-dimensional articulation between identity-based social representations, the analysis of the cultural productions of modernity, and strategies of symbolic materialization of the trans-cultural unconscious). On this journey, we attempted to call attention to the ways in which the articulation of theoretical analysis, documentary analysis, and the construction of objective-oriented research tools - which enables the mathematical processing of information and a heuristic articulation with qualitative research - made it possible to put forward new concepts and hypotheses regarding the crucial function of identity processes in the open-ended and interconnected socio-historical construction and transformation of personal gender, family, inter-ethnic, and political identities, within a tensionally differentiated world system, in a multidimensional, contradictory, and unstable form. We consider the anthropology of identity processes as the integrative keystone of the unfinished structure of social and cultural anthropology, which makes articulation possible with all the disciplines which shatter anthropological research into fragments.
Keywords : analysis of cultural productions; analysis of identity processes; structural-dynamic approach; research by objectives; construction of research instruments; integrative theorization.
