anthropology

context

ethnography

objectification

representation

subject

subjectifiction

seeks to turn subjects into objects rather than objects into subjects.

it is the sole discipline that struggles with the turning of subjects into objects rather than the turning of objects into subjects. This is the experimental strength of anthropology, which should be conserved' (Handelman 1994:341).

is a field undergirded by an ethos of experimentalism.

this ethos of experimentalism in self/other relationships is why anthropologist should concentrate on reflexivily deconstructing their discipline from within' (Handelman 1994:341).

is the weave of relatedness of 'whatever there is'.

In Bateson's thinking, context is not a container ot be filled with whatever is then contained, in context, and thereby shaped by it. To the contrary, as its etymology implies, context is whatever there is, the weave of relatedness of all there is as what there is (cf. Bateson 1972). (Handelman 1994:345).

is concerned with discourse... not with representation (an ideology of control over the appearance of otherness) nor with interpretation (the imputation of selfhood to otherness).

Since the aim of ethnography is discourse, it can no more be representation (an ideology of control over the appearance of otherness) than it can be interpretation (the imputation of selfhood to otherness)' (Handelman 1994:360)

is an ideology of control over otherness, just as interpretation is the imputation of selfhood to otherness.

Richard HandelmanThinkers

Richard Handelman