Reflections on Becoming an Applied Anthropologist
In responding to the honour given me by this 2006 Weaver-Tremblay Award, I will sketch some aspects of my academic and non-academic background, ponder the label "applied," discuss the balance between intellectual inquiry and pragmatic anthropology, and give some examples of my applied work...
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| Published in | Anthropologica (Ottawa) Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 195 - 205 |
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Waterloo
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2008
Canadian Anthropology Society |
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| Abstract | In responding to the honour given me by this 2006 Weaver-Tremblay Award, I will sketch some aspects of my academic and non-academic background, ponder the label "applied," discuss the balance between intellectual inquiry and pragmatic anthropology, and give some examples of my applied work, focusing on the James Bay region. /// L'honneur de recevoir le prix Weaver-Tremblay m'amène à relater quelques éléments de mon parcours universitaire et non-universitaire, à réfléchir sur la nature de l'étiquette " appliquée ", à discuter de l'équilibre entre la recherche intellectuelle et l'anthropologie pragmatique, et, enfin, à donner quelques exemples de mes travaux appliqués en focalisant sur la région de la Baie James. |
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| AbstractList | In responding to the honor given me by this 2006 Weaver-Tremblay Award, I will sketch some aspects of my academic & non-academic background, ponder the label "applied," discuss the balance between intellectual inquiry & pragmatic anthropology, & give some examples of my applied work, focusing on the James Bay region. References. Adapted from the source document. My orientation - perhaps it is an ideology - took explicit form in my first term of graduate school (1961), when I read Edward Sapir's essay "Culture, Genuine and Spurious" (1958). I felt a deep intuitive surge of recognition, and spent several days re-reading and thinking about that one small essay, phrase by phrase. It is curious to me now that Sapir, in this single essay, used the word "spirit" so many times, without its being noticeable. I will come back to "spirit" in a minute. I read Sapir very intensively, with most attention to the "culture and personality" papers, and my initial surge of recognition expanded as his words and thoughts sank more deeply and intuitively until I "got" it. Immediate experience means humility, and no conceptual agendas to intervene between you and the people you wish to understand. Rather than importing the theory of "equivalence of discourse" we can simply try sharing conversations, with deep listening. I thought of my "self" as if in the position of a piece of litmus paper, dipping into Cree culture to see what happened to my perception of the immediate environment. That sounds passive, I know, but I think of it as being open and sensitive to what I may be told or shown, comparable to listening to music or reading Sapir. Put in another way, you may look into the eyes of another person and see through the differences of personality, age, culture, gender and the rest - to a level where you see yourself mirrored in the other person's fundamental human nature. And that is the basic requirement, I believe, of my being able to "get" Cree oral tradition. As with my rapprochement with [Bela Bartok], and then with Sapir, I learned about Cree stories by listening deeply, and building up a large context of stories that had a cumulative and emergent affect on me. During the third summer of my listening and recording, I had a rather sudden awareness that I was "getting" an intuitively sound understanding of the idiom of experience that the stories were embedded in. My "getting" has gradually deepened over the years, thanks to more stories and more thinking about them, but also thanks to developing a relatively full subjective intellectual universe as a context that I could set the Cree stories within. 1 Sally M. Weaver spent most of her research career with the Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo. MarcAdelard "Ade" Tremblay was with the Département d'Anthropologie and was a senior administrator at Université Laval. [Joan Ryan] was based at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Calgary, and with native organizations after "retiring." [Michael Ames] was at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and curator of the Museum of Anthropology, at the University of British Columbia. [Paul Charest] was at the Département d'Anthropologie at Université Laval. [Peter Stephenson] was in Departments of Anthropology at McMaster University and then at the University of Victoria. [Michael Robinson] was at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. [Michael Asch] spent most of his career in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. [Pierre Beaucage] was at the Département d'Anthropologie at the Université de Montréal. [Donat Savoie] was with the Federal Department of Indian Affairs. Elvi Whittaker was in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Herman Konrad was in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Calgary. In responding to the honour given me by this 2006 Weaver-Tremblay Award, I will sketch some aspects of my academic and non-academic background, ponder the label "applied," discuss the balance between intellectual inquiry and pragmatic anthropology, and give some examples of my applied work, focusing on the James Bay region. /// L'honneur de recevoir le prix Weaver-Tremblay m'amène à relater quelques éléments de mon parcours universitaire et non-universitaire, à réfléchir sur la nature de l'étiquette " appliquée ", à discuter de l'équilibre entre la recherche intellectuelle et l'anthropologie pragmatique, et, enfin, à donner quelques exemples de mes travaux appliqués en focalisant sur la région de la Baie James. |
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