Semelhança e verossimilhança: horizontes da narrativa etnográfica

Cabra, João de Pina

doi:10.1590/s0104-93132003000100006

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“…Given the impossibility of being able to grasp exactly "what those who hear us understand about what we say, because their referential worlds will always be different from ours" [35] (pp. 113-114), the recognition of similarity makes it possible to apply a principle of coherence based on shared facts, or mutuality.…”

Section: Materials and Methods: Becoming Vulnerable In The Fieldmentioning

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“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

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2019

Societies

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The nonprofit organization where this ethnography took place, driven by the maxim ”lending a hand”, was forced to reduce its efforts to what it considered essential, at a time when austerity was beginning to take shape in Portugal. The analysis of the logics employed to distribute food to the neediest proved to be critical to the understanding of the consequences of apparent beneficial actions in this context. The concept of ”vulnerable” is, therefore, discussed considering how it was produced by a legal instrument and how it was reproduced by a local institution, what were the consequences for the subjects involved in this research and also for the vulnerable ethnographer. This investigation was based on several months of intense fieldwork where different ethnographic methodologies were employed in order to grasp the complexities of vulnerability and good intentions, such as participants’ observations and semi-directive interviews. Although this paper focuses on the analysis of the distribution of food support during a later visit to the fieldwork site, it is not the purpose of this paper to discuss issues of food shortage, but to contribute to the debate of care in the context of deprivation and precariousness, anchored in an ethnography where these concepts intertwine with real situations.

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Section: Materials and Methods: Becoming Vulnerable In The Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

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2019

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“…Este saber empiricamente constituído é explorado como um sistema aberto de símbolos, em processo contínuo de construção. Este movimento de fazer-se e refazer-se do saber antropológico gera múltiplos horizontes narrativos (Pina Cabral, 2003), em que pesquisador e pesquisado se reconhecem como semelhantes sem, contudo, abdicarem de suas diferenças culturais.…”

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Perspectivas e tradições do fazer etnográfico

Barbosa¹

2016

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Este artigo discute o fazer etnográfico como atividade central da antropologia. Se, por um lado, a etnografia significa o método ou o procedimento consolidado e quase definidor da produção científica de conhecimentos antropológicos, por outro, há um conjunto de perspectivas e tradições do fazer etnográfico cujas especificidades se assentam em escolhas teórico-metodológicas relevantes para o desenvolvimento e a produção de evidências de uma pesquisa. A argumentação desenvolvida se apoia no entendimento de que a antropologia se constitui em um movimento de constante reencontro do saber acumulado. Neste encontro, o ethos do fazer antropológico é atualizado como ideologia que norteia os pesquisadores e que operacionaliza uma comunicação entre as mais distintas tradições teórico- metodológicas da antropologia.

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“…Here, we come back to Needham's (1985) fascinating parable concerning the actual impossibility of inventing an ethnography and sustaining its verisimilitudethe story of Dr. Johnson's friend, Psalmanazar, who concocted an apparently realistic account of an invented society in the far-off island of Florida, today's Taiwan (cf. Pina-Cabral 2003).…”

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The All-or-Nothing Syndrome and the Human Condition

Pina‐Cabral¹

2009

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Abstract:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, anthropologists failed to elaborate on theoretical concepts such as the 'human condition'. In face of the fact that they did not abandon their scientific calling or the label 'anthropology', this must surely be taken as surprising. The article argues that this silence is possible due to an ideational performance here called the 'all-or-nothing syndrome'. This depends on a skeptical fallacy: the condition of those who, because they cannot have it all, despair of having what is there to be had. The article also explores the Davidsonian notions of 'indeterminacy' and 'underdetermination' as possible paths out of this quandary. It suggests an approach to ethnographic knowledge based on the principles that underscore the mechanisms of control that engineers call 'fuzzy logic'.

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Semelhança e verossimilhança: horizontes da narrativa etnográfica

Cited by 15 publications

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“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

Perspectivas e tradições do fazer etnográfico

The All-or-Nothing Syndrome and the Human Condition

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