Can anthropology Make Valid generalizations? Feelings of Belonging in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Bibliographic Data

ID18968592
AuthorsD M Viega (0000-0001-5975-9327, corresponding author), Susana de Matos Viegas
Year2009
Volume53
Issue2
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/sa.2009.530209
OpenAlexW2111369693
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited19

This article deals with connections between phenomenologi- cal approaches and the production of valid generalizations in the making of ethnography. The argument is constructed through the presentation of valid generalizations that have a bearing on the intersubjective feel- ings of belonging among the Tupinamba Indians (south of Bahia). These feelings arise both from living in a small kinship compound, with its sense of immediacy and personalized attachments to space, and from becoming part of the larger category of Tupinamba peo- ple and territory. The intertwining of lived experience and a broader comparative perspective on sociality, raised both by Americanist and more general theoretical debates in anthropology, is considered. From this perspective, the article presents different processes of connection making as epistemological tools for ethnographic generalizations, con- structed in a constant overlapping of scales

Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Ethnography · Feeling · Immediacy · Kinship · Perspective (graphical) · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Ecology · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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