Pathways through Method: An Essay in Review

Hegde, Sasheej; Mahajan, Gurpreet

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“…Irrespective of its appearance from this or that perspective, the calculated and enabled cognitive grasp of the object from the distance matters while mapping the relations of power and equality in situatedness between the subject and the object. Here, the generality of perspective, which gets transposed into the idea of method, becomes the locus of mediation, involving, at once, an object and a subject constituting the object (Hegde, 1994, p. 87).…”

Section: Time and The Other: The Case Of Indian Anthropologymentioning

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“…The distance that evolved through an epistemological and a methodological demand thus becomes a necessity in social science inquiry, where knowledge has primarily been foregrounded in the act of possession of things into consciousness, enabled through observation. 4 The object is therefore being taken ‘possession’ of from the viewpoint of the way in which it can be known rather than the ways in which it exists (Hegde, 1994, p. 89). The question ‘what something is in terms how it is known’ becomes central to our concern of understanding the placement of the object in a different temporal position (in the past of the subject) that is manoeuvred through the viewpoint.…”

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“…The method in its form of scientificity is featured by an exteriority to its object. It implies the subject's access and understanding of the object are taking place from a certain point outside the object, and as enabling a cognitive grasp of the object-the subject's capacity for accessing the object of inquiry (Hegde, 1994;Mahajan, 1992). Irrespective of its appearance from this or that perspective, the calculated and enabled cognitive grasp of the object from the distance matters while mapping the relations of power and equality in situatedness between the subject and the object.…”

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Temporality as Value: Ethnography and the Question of Time

Kumar

2015

Journal of Human Values

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How does the question of temporality get translated into the register of values in the process of constructing knowledge through ethnography? Is there a possibility of critical ethnography that tracks politics of time in the accounts of the other? By centring these questions to the domain of ethnographic endeavours in Indian anthropology, this article takes a look into the shifting locations of self and the other in the practice of ethnography with reference to the notion of temporality as value. Ethnography, once a key device of anthropological research, has become one of the significant approaches in almost all social science disciplines today and even in certain domains of humanities, management and market research. Ethnography itself has been reimagined and reshaped under different terrains of interdisciplinary approaches. But one would rarely find accounts of political and ideological manoeuvring of temporal concepts and value orientations which inform the theories and rhetoric in it. It pronounces upon the knowledge gathered from such research a discourse which construes the other in terms of a distance from the self, both spatial and temporal. Drawing upon this register of 'time' from the writing of Johannes Fabian, the article transposes the framework to understand the currents in contemporary Indian anthropology. KeywordsTemporality, value, ethnography, coevalness, self and the other This article will not rehash the debate in ethnography on the question of the other, which has already been thoroughly dealt with, in different intellectual terrains. However, there remains a conceptual lag in reloading the 'other' into its temporal ground, where the encounters between the subject and object of inquiry get exposed on the enactment of (un)sharing their situatedness in the present.1 I would like to develop this dimension of temporality in ethnography by tapping two distinct concerns of methodological significance. The first one is the problem of pedagogy in addressing temporality as value with reference to the conceptual orientation of knowledge production within the European enlightenment project and the corresponding selection of scholarships while dealing with the subjective-objective trouble. The second is about the practice of ethnography concerning the (desired) asymmetry of power not only in the communicative tracks that the knower and the known occupy but also its documenting and

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Section: Time and The Other: The Case Of Indian Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Time and The Other: The Case Of Indian Anthropologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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