11/11/2011

Writing Culture at 25: James Clifford

This video is helping me currently in writing up my paper on Cluj. Yes, finally I am writing an article - not just a paper - on Cluj.
This helps me in a very peculiar way. Clifford is not giving me practical tips. His way of speaking, rather than what he speaks about, helps me. It helps me approaching my data with a nice distance which allows irony and urges me to step back from a too deep involvement into my data, just for getting back from them understanding that my interpretations were simply fantasies on what I wanted to find. Projections, in other - less anthropological - words.
I admit, when I see these people, when I watch this gathering after 25 years of Writing Cultures, for example, I feel more than just good. Even my heartbeating feels relaxed.

1 comment:

Jason Antrosio said...

Not related to current post, but wanted to let you know Gopk is included in an attempt at comprehensive anthropology blog list and through 31 December, can vote for 10 best anthropology blogs.