Open AccessInventory in a card index form. Infatuation and sympathy: militancy and objectivity in anthroological research
Author(s) -
Heloísa Pontes
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
revista de antropologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1678-9857
pISSN - 0034-7701
DOI - 10.11606/2179-0892.ra.1993.111391
Subject(s) - sympathy , objectivity (philosophy) , infatuation , object (grammar) , subject (documents) , index (typography) , epistemology , sociology , psychology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , library science , world wide web
Reflecting on the delicate position of the knowing subject who is, simultaneously, the subject and object of his or her inquiry, this paper proposes to discuss the pertinency of the debate conceming objecti vity in the social sciences. lt deals with problems which the author encountered as someone who, for a brief period, was involved in a movement which was the object of her study. A possible solution to some of the dilemmas which arise in situations such as this may lie in meticulous reflection by anthropologists and sociologists on the processes of constructing their research objects.