
Tworzenie wspólnego ciała, czyli o przetwarzaniu terenu wśród boliwijskich Moré
Author(s) -
Paweł Chyc
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
etnografia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-9537
pISSN - 2392-0971
DOI - 10.26881/etno.2021.7.21
Subject(s) - narrative , face (sociological concept) , context (archaeology) , focus (optics) , sociology , field (mathematics) , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , history , social science , physics , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics , optics
The aim of this anthropological essay is to present the emotional and intellectual processes accompanying me over the years of field research among the Bolivian Moré, who belong to the Chapacura language family. The narrative structure is twofold: addressing both topics and issues that motivated me intellectually to do the research, and the attitudes of Moré themselves, as well as conceptual categories around which their narratives seem to focus. Some passages of this essay take a more analytical form, as I focus on the impor- tance of unpredictable events, the context, and the transformation of field experience over time during the research process. I conclude that both sides of the fieldwork encounter face the task of getting to know the Other. Each gets to know the Other in a particular way through conceptual categories and ways of acting that result from their current way of being in the world.