Open AccessAnthropology: A Science of the Non-event?
Author(s) -
Hamish Morgan
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v16i2.1696
Subject(s) - ethnography , trace (psycholinguistics) , event (particle physics) , relevance (law) , relation (database) , sociology , publishing , project commissioning , media studies , aesthetics , history , epistemology , anthropology , literature , art , linguistics , computer science , law , philosophy , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
This essay explores the notion of the ‘event’ and it relevance to ethnography and community. It has developed from research work with Aboriginal people, especially the Jackman family, in central Western Australia. The essay sketches the possibility of developing another kind of ethnographic writing, one attuned to the relation with others, one that involves being-in-common with others. It focuses on developing a writing practice that is exposed to interruption, to fragments, to little happenings and encounters, to those shared events that happen in community. The essay sees community as the place of interruption: that to be with others is to be taken off, shown something else, exposed to unique turnings of the world that others give light to trace.