Published: 2020-11-30

A TELESCOPE, RADAR OR MAGNIFIER? POSSIBILITIES FOR PRE-TEXTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY IN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Hubert Wierciński
Etnografia Polska
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/EP64.2020.004

Abstract

In the article I explore the concept of “pre-textual” ethnography. While seeking possibilities for its application, I analyse potential limitations of the latter. I use my own research experiences form Zdrój and Podstawowa Opieka Zdrowotna (POZ, Basic Healthcare). I consider these projects as embedded in two contrasting methodological traditions spanned between post-semiotic analyses and phenomenologically influenced anthropology. I argue, that the choice of methodological orientation should be preceded by careful analyses of the fieldwork characteristics. I consider this scrutiny as reflexive, magnifying and open for various stimulius coming to researcher from the investigated word, and thus, as a main pretextual tool in current anthropology.

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pre-textual ethnography, medical anthropology, methodology, Poland

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Wierciński, H. (2020). A TELESCOPE, RADAR OR MAGNIFIER? POSSIBILITIES FOR PRE-TEXTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY IN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH. Etnografia Polska, 64. https://doi.org/10.23858/EP64.2020.004

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