Activist anthropology as a cultivating of participant observation

• Authors: Tubacki Hubert Mikołaj
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The text describes a consideration of activist anthropology, which I treat as an extension of participant observation. It stems from and builds upon the methodological eclecticism of anthropology/ ethnology. For me, activist anthropology is the closest to the original premise of participant observation because in this view the researcher’s participation is possibly closest to that of the research partners. I present the theoretical foundations on which it is based and the circumstances of my research-activist practice in which my interpretation of it was developed. I demonstrate in the text its features that reinforce the need to distinguish the term activist anthropology as a specific practice of participatory observation and anthropology itself.

Keywords

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activist anthropology; ethnography; participant observation; activism; field research; method

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 60-69

Contributors

author

Tubacki Hubert Mikołaj