How to practice ethnography? Towards a pragmatic theory and description policy

The article first establishes the foundation of a pragmatic anthropology –mainly interestedin the question “How do people do?” - that should guide the ethnographic research. Thenit describes with an ethnographic extract some of the different practices in the celebrationof San Juan/Inti Raymi in Otav...

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Published inUniversitas humanística Vol. 75; no. 75; pp. 82 - 104
Main Author Jeremie Voirol
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pontificia Universidad Javeriana 01.06.2013
Subjects
Celebration
Description
Ecuador
Ethnography
Otavalo
Pragmatism
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Summary:The article first establishes the foundation of a pragmatic anthropology –mainly interestedin the question “How do people do?” - that should guide the ethnographic research. Thenit describes with an ethnographic extract some of the different practices in the celebrationof San Juan/Inti Raymi in Otavalo in the Ecuadorian Andes, with a textual constructionmade from a pragmatic perspective. Finally, the article develops four points that supportthe pragmatic and detailed description: action in the situation, intellectualism overcoming, the situational relations of power and the co-experience of readers.
ISSN:0120-4807
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