According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery - for many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In "Ethnographic Sorcery", West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West realizes that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common. Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.
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如果知識和道理隻是一種主觀的“詮釋”，那就更應該嚴謹謙遜。
评分印象最深的是它的circular argument，以及章節的排列和意味，呈現的探索的前行吧 還是比較有特色心意的一本書
评分印象最深的是它的circular argument，以及章節的排列和意味，呈現的探索的前行吧 還是比較有特色心意的一本書
评分印象最深的是它的circular argument，以及章節的排列和意味，呈現的探索的前行吧 還是比較有特色心意的一本書
评分如果知識和道理隻是一種主觀的“詮釋”，那就更應該嚴謹謙遜。
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