Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco (A Quantum book)

✍ Scribed by Paul Rabinow

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Series: Quantum Books
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 8
Introduction......Page 13
1 Remnants of a dying colonialism......Page 20
2 Packaged goods......Page 32
3 Ali: An insider's outsider......Page 43
4 Entering......Page 82
5 Respectable information......Page 113
6 Transgression......Page 137
7 Self-consciousness......Page 143
8 Friendship......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 162
Selected bibliography......Page 175