Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

Rabinow , Paul

ISBN 10: 0520035291 / ISBN 13: 9780520035294

Published by Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977, 1977

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
• Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977
• Publication Date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0520035291
• ISBN 13: 9780520035294
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
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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.

About the Author

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen (2004).