Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web

By: jay sosa

jay sosa — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:22:20 +0000

Thanks, Tom. I guess I didn’t notice the blank comments form, and many of them don’t have comments yet. Whoops.

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:20:46 +0000

Although there is no aggregate forum on the SSRC page, you can leave comments at the end of each essay.

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By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:57:12 +0000

bq. Tony at ethnography.com writes a piece on eye-witness vs. library forms of knowledge.

The important question here is “Why vs.?” Why not see the fieldworker’s eye-witness account and what can already be found in libraries as complementary sources of information?

To me, Clifford Geertz’s account in the introduction to _Islam Observed_ nails the critical issue. We go into the field in search of insights that only first-hand experience produces–but their value can only be assessed in conversation with scholars pursuing other approaches. That conversation starts in the library (or, nowadays, on line).

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