Collaborative Moments: Expanding the Anthropological Field through Cross-Disciplinary Practice
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Collaborative Moments : Expanding the Anthropological Field through Cross-Disciplinary Practice. / Hastrup, Kirsten Blinkenberg.
In: Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 83, No. 2, 2018, p. 316-334.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative Moments
T2 - Expanding the Anthropological Field through Cross-Disciplinary Practice
AU - Hastrup, Kirsten Blinkenberg
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article explores some implications of cross-disciplinarity, as experienced inpractice. Anthropologists are used to fuse different styles of reasoning byintegrating the points of view and unspoken certainties of their partners in the field into their analysis. Fieldwork can be seen as an experiment in real time, where insights gained intersubjectively gradually shape up as knowledge through analysis. This line of thought is brought to bear on a discussion of collaboration between anthropologists, archaeologists, and biologists in North West Greenland. Through actual experiences from the field, this article shows how knowledge generated on the edge of one’s familiar disciplinary territory may both expand and intensify the anthropological field. Collaborative moments are seen to make new anthropological insights emerge through the co-presence of several analytical perspectives in the field.
AB - This article explores some implications of cross-disciplinarity, as experienced inpractice. Anthropologists are used to fuse different styles of reasoning byintegrating the points of view and unspoken certainties of their partners in the field into their analysis. Fieldwork can be seen as an experiment in real time, where insights gained intersubjectively gradually shape up as knowledge through analysis. This line of thought is brought to bear on a discussion of collaboration between anthropologists, archaeologists, and biologists in North West Greenland. Through actual experiences from the field, this article shows how knowledge generated on the edge of one’s familiar disciplinary territory may both expand and intensify the anthropological field. Collaborative moments are seen to make new anthropological insights emerge through the co-presence of several analytical perspectives in the field.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Collaboration
KW - cross-disciplinarity
KW - knowledge-making
KW - fieldwork
KW - the High Arctic
KW - landscape
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2016.1270343
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2016.1270343
M3 - Journal article
VL - 83
SP - 316
EP - 334
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 2
ER -
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