ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE WAY OF THEORY
ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE WAY OF THEORY
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DOI：
10.1111/cuan.12028
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发表时间：
2013-11-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Biehl, Joao
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作者：
Biehl, Joao
在这篇文章中，我回到了我与这个领域的人们的接触，不仅是为了解决我在那里遇到的具体情况和轨迹，而且是为了提出一个案例，允许我们与他人的接触来决定我们对他们的思考过程，并更广泛地反思人类学和哲学之间的对抗和反身关系。我这样做是为了表明，通过民族志的渲染，人们自己对他们的条件的理论化可能会渗透、激活和挑战当今的验证制度，包括哲学的普遍性和人类学对哲学的征服。我对民族志的现实如何进入理论工作很感兴趣。以皮埃尔·克拉斯特雷斯、吉尔·德勒兹和菲利克斯·瓜塔里之间的相互影响为例，我反对将民族志简化为原始哲学。事实上，这种关系可能更有效地被视为一种创造性的紧张和交叉授粉。这种民族志的意义是以一种（而不是以一种）理论化的艺术方式，旨在保持相互关系、不稳定性、好奇心和未完成性的焦点。在抵制综合目的和开放而不是绝对真理的过程中，民族志实践允许一种解放性的反思，以及对我们时代的理性、干预和道德问题进行更有力的批评。最后，我回到这个领域，思考生命的故事是如何继续的。
In this article, I return to my engagements with people in the field not only to address the specific circumstances and trajectories I encountered there, but to make a case for allowing our engagement with Others to determine the course of our thinking about them and to reflect more broadly upon the agonistic and reflexive relations between anthropology and philosophy. I do so in order to suggest that through ethnographic rendering, people's own theorizing of their conditions may leak into, animate, and challenge present-day regimes of veridiction, including philosophical universals and anthropological subjugation to philosophy. I am interested in how ethnographic realities find their way into theoretical work. Using the mutual influence between Pierre Clastres and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari as a case study, I argue against reducing ethnography to proto-philosophy. The relationship, in fact, may be more productively seen as one of creative tension and cross-pollination. This sense of ethnography in the way of (instead of to) theorylike artaims at keeping interrelatedness, precariousness, curiosity, and unfinishedness in focus. In resisting synthetic ends and making openings rather than absolute truths, ethnographic practice allows for an emancipatory reflexivity and for a more empowering critique of the rationalities, interventions, and moral issues of our times. I conclude with a literal return to the field and reflect on how the story of lives continues.