“Observadores observados” e a pesquisa avançada em literatura e antropologia

 

Gustavo Rubim*

* Laboratório de Estudos Literários Avançados, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; rubimgreen@gmail.com.

 

RESUMO

Neste ensaio propõe-se uma releitura do livro Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (1983), primeiro volume da coleção “History of Anthropology” dirigida por George W. Stocking, Jr., feita na perspetiva do estudo das relações entre literatura e antropologia. Dentro dessa obra coletiva, é analisado com especial minúcia o ensaio “Following Deacon: the problem of ethnographic reanalysis, 1926-1981”, da autoria da antropóloga Joan Larcom. A ideia condutora é dupla: por um lado, o trabalho antropológico é definido pela sua dimensão literária mesmo no plano da observação e, por outro lado, a ideia moderna de “literatura” é profundamente afetada pelo desdobramento antropológico da escrita literária.

Palavras-chave: antropologia, interpretação, literatura, observação, reanálise, terreno.

 

Observers Observed and the advanced studies in Literature and Anthropology

ABSTRACT

In this essay, a rereading of the book Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (1983), first volume of the series History of Anthropology, edited by George W. Stocking, Jr., is attempted from the point of view of the connections between Literature and Anthropology. Special emphasis is given to “Following Deacon: the problem of ethnographic reanalysis, 1926-1981”, the contribution of the anthropologist Joan Larcom to that set of essays. The leading idea is double: on the one side, ethnographic fieldwork is defined by its literary component even at the level of observation; on the other side, the modern idea of “literature” is seen as deeply affected by the existence of anthropological discourse as a development of literary writing.

Keywords: anthropology, fieldwork, interpretation, literature, observation, reanalysis.

 

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