O antropolozima ili koliko antropologija jeste zbir intelektualnih karijera

Abstract

Antropolozi 'internalisti' bave se sobom na dva sasvim različita načina. Etnografi s antropološkom diplomom su preko refleksivnosti došli do autoetnografije, dok oni koji se bave sobom na nivou discipline pišu o antropologiji tj. najčešće istoriju antropologije. Antropolozi 'eksternalisti' se bave svetom. Neki od njih su klasični etnografi koji proizvode obične ili 'guste' opise, neki pokušavaju svet da tumače, a treći, koji preko akcione stižu do militantne antropologije, pokušavaju da svet menjaju i usklade sa svojim političkim stavovima.

Anthropologists who can be categorized as 'internalists' engage with the self in two completely different ways. Ethnographers with an anthropological diploma arrived at auto-ethnography through reflexivity, while those who deal with the self at the disciplinary level usually write about anthropology or, most often, write histories of anthropology. Anthropologists categorized as 'externalist' engage with the world at large. Some of them are classic ethnographers who produce ordinary or 'thick' descriptions, some of them try to interpret the world, and the third kind arrive at militant anthropology by way of activist anthropology, and try to change the world in accordance with their political opinion.