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Anthropology at home via anthropology abroad: The problematic heritage
S Fainzang1,2
1a CERMES/INSERM , 182 Bd de la Villette , Paris , 75019 , France.
Abstract:
Medical anthropology 'at home' owes an important debt to the methodological, epistemological, and theoretical research traditions developed by anthropologists working 'abroad'. One cannot deny this heritage. In turn, medical anthropology 'at home' has much to offer to social anthropology as a whole, since the field brings afresh gaze to familiar phenomena. By constructing new objects of research and new methods, and in particular through the effort of distancing-which is both more crucial and also harder to achieve at home than abroad-the study of medical anthropology in one's own society suggests new pathways towards the understanding of the individual in society.
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