Abstract

PACHECO DE OLIVEIRA, João. Ethnographic traditions and anthropologies in plural. Anthropologica [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.49, pp.271-284.  Epub Feb 27, 2023. ISSN 0254-9212.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.202202.014.

Malinowski’s work remains a fundamental reference for anthropology. His most famous monograph, which focused on the islanders of Polynesia, came to make fieldwork the defining method of a science assumed as a university discipline. One hundred years later, his methodological recommendations cannot continue to be taken out of context, rather they need to be re-examined in terms of their own historical context. In later works, Malinowski went on to establish some radically different methodological procedures, which in turn were essential to the Africanist ethnographic tradition. In other contexts, parallel anthropology came to take forms quite different from the one it assumed in England in the first half of the 20th century and spread to other parts of the world. In an effort to understand anthropology as a plural knowledge and experience, I briefly describe the emergence in Brazil of a very different ethnographic tradition, which overcomes some of the limitations contained in the procedures recommended by Malinowski and which comes to connect with later lines. research developed in Latin American anthropologies.

Keywords : ethnographic situation; field work methodology; ethnographic tradition; Africanist ethnographic tradition; ethnographic tradition in Brazil.

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