Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author

Paul Rabinow

Published by University of California Press 2016

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author

Paul Rabinow

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520933897

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In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.

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Rabinow Paul :

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech Chronicles, with Talia Dan-Cohen (2004).

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Foreword Robert N. Bellah Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
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Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Pages
- Main content: 208

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Published: August 5, 2016
ISBN: 9780520933897