The clown
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https://doi.org/10.52610/rhs.v10i40.204Keywords:
rhetoric heroism, narrative styles, clowns, comic, anthropological conventionsAbstract
In this article I will try to challenge what I see as the rhetoric heroism in what is considered the key activity and key competence in social anthropology, the understanding of the other. Are anthropologists “big pretenders” as to such a rhetoric convention? What would be the consequences if anthropologists introduce other narrative styles, a new strategy, i.e. other conventions for the systematic building of knowledge, for instance one which would resemble a Woody Allen-like clown, a comic who fumbles around, makes failures? It is my contention that anthropologists have acquired recognition, not through a real understanding of the other, but through the anthropological rhetoric and the ambition to understand the other. I have tried to show how dangerous it is to challenge the rhetoric conventions within a discipline.
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