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A ideia de método como princípio é costumeiramente atropelada pela seguinte sugestão: ele é o justo oposto da teoria e, portanto, é quase uma ferramenta – é algo prático. E a etnografia, que é a componente mais prática da antropologia e que foi concebida como método antropológico por excelência, ficou, portanto, encarcerada neste mesmo estamento epistemológico. Nisto, perde-se aquilo que seria, possivelmente, o grande sonho de Malinowski: fundar uma ciência da contemplação. Esta mesma disposição, para pensar cientificamente o meditar, encontra-se como preocupação central em muitos pensadores da filosofia portuguesa contemporânea, sobretudo na obra do filósofo José Marinho, aquele que talvez seja o último representante da “Renascença portuguesa”.
The idea of method as principle is usually undermined by the suggestion that method is the opposite of theory, and thus almost a tool. Ethnography, in turn, conceived as it is as the anthropological method par excellence, ends up trapped in this same epistemological cage; ethnography has become the most practical aspect of anthropology. This situation compromises what arguably was Malinowski’s greatest dream: to establish a “science of contemplation”. This same disposition, to reflect scientifically on the act of meditation, can be found as the central concern in many thinkers of contemporary Portuguese philosophy, and especially in the work of José Marinho, who may be the last representative of the “Portuguese Renaissance”.
The idea of method as principle is usually undermined by the suggestion that method is the opposite of theory, and thus almost a tool. Ethnography, in turn, conceived as it is as the anthropological method par excellence, ends up trapped in this same epistemological cage; ethnography has become the most practical aspect of anthropology. This situation compromises what arguably was Malinowski’s greatest dream: to establish a “science of contemplation”. This same disposition, to reflect scientifically on the act of meditation, can be found as the central concern in many thinkers of contemporary Portuguese philosophy, and especially in the work of José Marinho, who may be the last representative of the “Portuguese Renaissance”.
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Trabalho de campo Objetividade científica Renascença portuguesa Contemplação Fieldwork Scientific objectivity Portuguese renaissance Contemplation
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Antropológicas. Porto: Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa. ISSN 0873-819X. 16 (2020) 13-22.