Keith Hart's Blog – April 2012 Archive (1)
Anthropology, society and the unconscious mind
I am coming round to a view of anthropology as a mixture of late Durkheim and Jung. It's why what the others call ethnography is not what we do and what anthropologists do is to some extent occult, so we hide it like a dirty secret when it is in fact the source of why we get it right more often. How do we turn the bits of concrete fieldwork, the individuals and events, into a partial vision of the whole society we study? By immersing ourselves in the social life and conversations of a place…
ContinueAdded by Keith Hart on April 14, 2012 at 7:30pm — 15 Comments
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