{"id":331,"date":"2018-02-06T02:36:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T02:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assodivergence.wordpress.com\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2018-02-06T02:36:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T02:36:21","slug":"session-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/sw\/2018-2\/doctoral-workshop\/session-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Session 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cRe-thinking the native from inside and outside\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In our first session of the doctoral worshop on \u201cCultural decentralization and circulation of knowledge: peripheral experiences\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>we will discuss the presentations of Abdul Qadar (Pakistan) <\/em>and Jos\u00e9 Egas (Ecuador).<\/em><\/p>\n

On Perils and Privileges of \u2018Native\u2019 Anthropologist: De-centering the Self of Punjabi Anthropologist against Writing and Representations<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Abdul Qadar<\/em><\/p>\n

This paper sheds light on my recent fieldwork experiences as a native anthropologist at two different villages in Punjab. The study aims to problematize the self(ves) of a native anthropologist against the backdrop of socio-historical embeddedness of the field\/locale. This paper is originated from my reflections on the possibility of a multiplicity of meanings of the key terms like \u2018native\u2019, \u2018field\u2019 and \u2018self\u2019 either of the anthropologist or of the \u2018subject\u2019. I am of the view that drawing on the comparative analysis between my fieldwork conducted at the village where an American anthropologist had already done extensive fieldwork, and my recent fieldwork at my own village, it is possible to contextualize the self of native anthropologist. It is argued that as positions of the people vis-\u00e0-vis position\/distance of the native anthropologist changes, there is a necessity to realize accordingly the self of the anthropologist itself, simultaneously, both as peril and privilege. Unless the anthropologist makes him\/herself aware of such intricacies, such positions influence not only the text but the eventual layout of the researcher\u2019s relationship with his\/her field.<\/p>\n

Stared\u00a0as a native\u00a0on\u00a0the other side of the world? The ambiguities of nativity<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Jose Egas<\/em><\/p>\n

I argue that the fact that a researcher while being native from an akin but distant place from which his\/her research is done, may create a sort of de-centered nativity that influences the anthropological practice during the fieldwork immersion. By analyzing some of the experiences faced during my research on Kerala, South India, I show how a number of specific elements of the cultural and political dynamics of the place tend to tie my regional provenance from Latin America with a local identity, and thus have different consequences for the access to the field, in practical and theoretical terms. By re-thinking the notion of native, I suggest problematizing the critical dichotomies between outsider\/insider, indigenous\/foreign, observed\/observer in the context of the world system where the global north and south suggest a de-centralization of the\u00a0regard\u00a0(as a position)<\/p>\n

Date: February 1st, 2018<\/p>\n

Hour: 15h \u2013 17 h<\/p>\n

Location: EHESS, 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris, (salle A05_51)<\/p>\n

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\u201cRe-thinking the native from inside and outside\u201d In our first session of the doctoral worshop on \u201cCultural decentralization and circulation of knowledge: peripheral experiences\u201d\u00a0we will discuss the presentations of Abdul Qadar (Pakistan) and Jos\u00e9 Egas (Ecuador). On Perils and Privileges of \u2018Native\u2019 Anthropologist: De-centering the Self of Punjabi Anthropologist against Writing and Representations by Abdul…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-331","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divergencelab.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}