Displacing the Subject: A Dialogical Understanding of the Researching Self
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2009
Department
Anthropology and Sociology
Abstract
Dialogical epistemologies of the self have been influential in rethinking the politics of ethnography. Although critiquing the centered Cartesian self as the locus of knowledge, these approaches focus attention on the researcher and assume the primacy of the self-knowing subject. This article draws on Peirce's argument that `man' is a sign to supplement critical theories of knowledge. Although Peirce focused on the semiosis of consciousness, we can apply his interpretive framework to think about other interpretants of the researching sign, the discourses that shape the meanings of the self as sign, and the hazards of the ethnographic encounter.
Publication Title
Anthropological Theory
Volume
9
Issue
1
First Page
81
Last Page
101
Recommended Citation
Hayden, B.
(2009). Displacing the Subject: A Dialogical Understanding of the Researching Self. Anthropological Theory, 9(1), 81-101.
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