Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
By: Paul Rabinow ; with a foreword by Robert N. Bellah and an afterword by Pierre Bourdieu.
Edition: 30th anniversary ed. / with a new preface by the author.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780520251779
Subjects: Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Morocco
Description: 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.--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published in 1977.

Includes bibliographical references.