An Anthropologist's Work between Moving Genres

Moshe Shokeid

doi:10.1080/00141844.1992.9981457

An Anthropologist's Work between Moving Genres

Moshe Shokeid^*

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Department of Sociology & Anthropology

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Anthropologists who have worked in recent decades experienced the breakdown of a dominant methodological and theoretical ethos. The author relates his pains and delights as he moved away from the Jerusalem “modernization” grand theory sociological paradigm of the 1960s to the Manchester School compelling fieldwork doctrine. And he relates his later attraction to the Geertziangenre and the more recent encounters with the mixed blessing of reflexivity and “post-modernism The latter have opened new fields for exploration and liberated the anthropologist from strict disciplinarian borders and ideological taboos. But the new genres seem also to jeopardize the raison d^fetre of the ethnographic project. The author associates his changing loyalties and tastes with his choice of ethnographic fields.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-244
Number of pages	12
Journal	Ethnos
Volume	57
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1992.9981457
State	Published - 1 Jan 1992

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