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Rethinking World Anthropologies Through Fieldwork: Perspectives on “Extended Stay” and “Back-and-Forth” Methodologies

In this article, we explore the grounds on which world anthropologies can be differentiated and how this can be discussed without reproducing the internal hierarchies of a discipline that has at least four names (social anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnology, ethnography). We suggest that ethnographic research (rather than national intellectual traditions) can be used as the criterion to differentiate between world anthropologies. In doing so, we discuss whether the production of anthropological knowledge is affected by the model of ethnographic fieldwork employed, by focusing on two methodologies: the “extended stay” model and the “back-and-forth” model. We also consider how methodologies may be discussed, given that the extended stay and back-and-forth fieldwork designs exist within anthropological-ethnological communities in unequal power positions. On the basis of an anthropological conference, Anthropology Otherwise, organised in Valjevo, Serbia, in 2011, which used consensus-based decision making as an organisational technique, we suggest that encounters of people who practice ethnography in various ways may unsettle existing hierarchies within the discipline if organised through experimental academic conference formats

ethnography ; fieldwork ; world anthropologies ; activist traditions

U ovom se članku propitkuje na kojim se temeljima mogu razlikovati svjetske antropologije i kako se o tom pitanju može raspravljati bez reproduciranja unutarnjih hijerarhija discipline koji ima barem četiri naziva (socijalna antropologija, kulturna antropologija, etnologija, etnografija). Predlažemo da se etnografsko istraživanje (a ne nacionalne intelektualne tradicije) upotrebljava kao kriterij razlikovanja svjetskih antropologija. Tako se raspravlja o tome utječe li na stvaranje antropološkog znanja model rada upotrijebljen na terenu. Usredotočuje se na dva metodološka modela: „uronjenje“ (extended stay/immersion) i model „tamo i nazad“ (back-and-forth). Analizira se kako se može raspravljati o objema metodologijama, s obzirom na to da se ta dva modela upotrebljavaju u antropološko-etnološkim zajednicama na različitim pozicijama moći. Na temelju antropološke konferencije, Anthropology Otherwise, organizirane u Valjevu (Srbija) 2011. godine, na kojoj je konsenzualno odlučivanje upotrijebljeno kao organizacijska tehnika, ukazuje se na to da susreti među ljudima koji prakticiraju etnografiju na različite načine mogu poremetiti postojeće hijerarhije unuta