Antropologia culturală/socială în oglinda unei „slabe” epistemologii cu etnologia și sociologia
Cultural/social anthropology in the mirror of a "weak" epistemology with ethnology and sociology

Summary/Abstract: There is no unanimous accord regarding the epistemological background of cultural and social anthropology. This fact hampers the relation between anthropology and other sciences of man, as ethnology and sociology. By way of a “weak” epistemology, it is to be discovered that the anthropologist makes his researches in an alien culture, using a methodology of long-term fieldwork, and the ethnologist/ sociologist in their own culture. A weak epistemology takes experience and subjectivity into account. An anthropology at home based on this epistemology is also possible, if the anthropologist strictly uses the instruments of anthropology. Many times, studies that are sociological, psychological, ethnological etc. are confused to be anthropological in Romania and in entire Balkan zone. Adopting the previous epistemological perspectives may be a good point of departure for a true professionalization and institutionalization of cultural and social anthropology in Romania and in the Balkans.

• Details
• Contents