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The use and abuse of ethnography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3QY, Scotland, United Kingdom tim.ingold@abdn.ac.uk www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology/ingold.htm
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Abstract

Human beings grow into cultural knowledge, within a social and environmental context, rather than receiving it ready made. This seems also to be true of cetaceans. Rendell and Whitehead invoke a notion of culture long since rejected by anthropologists, and fundamentally misunderstand the nature of ethnography. A properly ethnographic study of cetaceans would directly subvert their positivist methodology and reductionist assumptions.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 337
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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