Publication:
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
Book Description
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes
as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process?
To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between
anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic
study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants
in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past,
to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow
considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.
About the Author
Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley.
He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Machine to Make a Future:
Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen (2004).
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (Paperback)
Book Description
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes
as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process?
To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between
anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic
study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants
in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past,
to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow
considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.
About the Author
Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley.
He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Machine to Make a Future:
Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen (2004).