Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco

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Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco

Paul Rabinow ; with a foreword by Robert N. Bellah and an afterword by Pierre Bourdieu

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University of California Press, c2007

30th anniversary ed. / with a new preface by the author

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Originally published in 1977

Bibliography: p. 169-172

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Forward by Robert N. Bellah Introduction 1 Remnants of a Dying Colonialism 2 Packaged Goods 3 Ali: An Insider's Outsider 4 Entering 5 Respectable Information 6 Transgression 7 Self-Consciousness 8 Friendship Conclusion Afterword by Pierre Bourdieu Selected Bibliography

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