Anton Pannekoek’s Epistemic Virtues in Astronomy and Socialism: Personae and the Practice of Science

Tai, Chaokang; Dongen, Jeroen van

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“…Previous research on the scholarly persona has often focused on scholars in single disciplines, just as I do here (See e.g. Carson 2001;Paul 2017;Tai & Dongen 2016). What would one more study of one more discipline-and a very small one-give us that has not yet been discovered?…”

Section: Approaches To Studying a Folklorist's Personamentioning

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Writing a folklorist’s persona in the field: How defining the object of study defines the scholar

Svanfeldt-Winter

2018

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In this article, I approach negotiations of belonging by studying the relationship between folklorists and their informants. I examine how young Finnish folklorists on their first collection journeys in the early 1920s positioned themselves as scholars by stressing both their identification with and their differences from the informants. The discipline's high status as a "national science" required the collectors to approach the locals as carriers of a national heritage shared between the collectors and informants On the other hand, the pursuit of scholarly acknowledgement urged the scholars to emphasize their position as experts who could evaluate the authenticity and academic relevance of the information offered by the locals. One effective way to do so was to highlight a temporal distance between the describer and the described, placing the informants in an earlier time of lower social and cultural development than the scholar. I discuss how the alternation between identification and difference can be interpreted as a means for the scholars to negotiate their places in their academic community and to form feasible scholarly personae within it. The article places special focus on how the young collectors performed this negotiation by describing informants in their correspondences with student friends and cooperating to find shared ways of approaching the informants in acceptable ways according to their discipline.

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Section: Approaches To Studying a Folklorist's Personamentioning

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Writing a folklorist’s persona in the field: How defining the object of study defines the scholar

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2018

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“…The lack of any attempt to combine the two was already criticized by Klaas vanBerkel (1984). For recent scholarship that does attempt to arrive at a unified understanding of Pannekoek, seeTai and van Dongen 2016; Tai 2017. 4 On the mutual development of art and science in the early modern period, see, e.g Bennett 1982;Edgerton 1991;Kwa 2005;Smith 2006;Long 2011…”

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“…See Daston 2008 for the importance of the visual in bridging psychology and epistemology. 8 For a detailed discussion on Pannekoek's epistemic virtues in astronomy and socialism, see Tai and van Dongen 2016;andTai 2017. 9 Galison andDaston 2008. being produced by the latest technological innovations.…”

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The Milky Way as Optical Phenomenon:

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2019

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One of Anton Pannekoek's main scientif ic projects was to provide a representation of the appearance of the Milky Way-an object he believed to be an optical illusion. This paper elucidates how Pannekoek thought the Milky Way appearance was formed by a combination of human psychology and physiology, and why he attributed such significance to it. In doing so, it explores the connections between Pannekoek's scientific methodology and his socialist epistemology. The paper also outlines the various techniques Pannekoek employed in his research. To observe the Milky Way, he used both extrafocal photography and visual observations by himself and others. To represent the results, he combined naturalistic drawings with verbal descriptions, numerical tables, and isophotic diagrams.

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Anton Pannekoek’s Epistemic Virtues in Astronomy and Socialism: Personae and the Practice of Science

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Writing a folklorist’s persona in the field: How defining the object of study defines the scholar

Writing a folklorist’s persona in the field: How defining the object of study defines the scholar

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