CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGY: CONSTRUCTING AND ANALYZING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (BASED ON THE PARADIGMS OF TONY L. WHITEHEAD AND MARGARET LE COMPTE)
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| contents | <p>The presented article discusses important scientific problems in modern anthropological epistemology: description and generalization of local knowledge systems, the general theoretical essence of anthropological truth, and the relationship between the researcher and his research environment. In this background, attention was focused, on Tony L. Whitehead’s Cultural Systems Paradigm and Margaret D. LeCompte’s thesis on ethnographic data analysis, which are central to the theoretical problems discussed here. They were chosen for two reasons: firstly, taking into account the peculiarities of ethnographic research, to obtain reliable and generalizable ethnographic material, in other words - to deal with theoretical and related methodological challenges, and secondly, to overcome difficulties related to qualitative data analysis. The article also paid attention to a problem raised by Marvin Harris regarding the relationship between emic and etic in anthropology, which can be considered as the main aspect of the description of the local knowledge with a proper conceptual apparatus and the representation of the research object. These paradigms were analyzed by critiquing the role of the researcher as an authority figure and showing the ethnographic field as a setting with multiple (often contradictory) discourses presented by interlocutors with different genders, identities, age groups, and personalities.The local knowledge system was described as a universal human tool created for understanding the existing facts about the world, existing in relativistic forms, and the person (Interlocutor) as an object of study was presented in the appropriate spatial and temporal context, which has to constantly come into contact with wider cultural representations and transform them into his mental representations.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGY: CONSTRUCTING AND ANALYZING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (BASED ON THE PARADIGMS OF TONY L. WHITEHEAD AND MARGARET LE COMPTE) Vakhtangashvili, Giorgi Social anthropology Cultural anthropology Epistemology Ethnology <p>The presented article discusses important scientific problems in modern anthropological epistemology: description and generalization of local knowledge systems, the general theoretical essence of anthropological truth, and the relationship between the researcher and his research environment. In this background, attention was focused, on Tony L. Whitehead’s Cultural Systems Paradigm and Margaret D. LeCompte’s thesis on ethnographic data analysis, which are central to the theoretical problems discussed here. They were chosen for two reasons: firstly, taking into account the peculiarities of ethnographic research, to obtain reliable and generalizable ethnographic material, in other words - to deal with theoretical and related methodological challenges, and secondly, to overcome difficulties related to qualitative data analysis. The article also paid attention to a problem raised by Marvin Harris regarding the relationship between emic and etic in anthropology, which can be considered as the main aspect of the description of the local knowledge with a proper conceptual apparatus and the representation of the research object. These paradigms were analyzed by critiquing the role of the researcher as an authority figure and showing the ethnographic field as a setting with multiple (often contradictory) discourses presented by interlocutors with different genders, identities, age groups, and personalities.The local knowledge system was described as a universal human tool created for understanding the existing facts about the world, existing in relativistic forms, and the person (Interlocutor) as an object of study was presented in the appropriate spatial and temporal context, which has to constantly come into contact with wider cultural representations and transform them into his mental representations.</p> |
| title | CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL EPISTEMOLOGY: CONSTRUCTING AND ANALYZING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS (BASED ON THE PARADIGMS OF TONY L. WHITEHEAD AND MARGARET LE COMPTE) |
| topic | Social anthropology Cultural anthropology Epistemology Ethnology |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14751477 |