Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6052ISSN: Print 1683-8831
Abstract
Future of anthropology rests upon the retrospective of ethnography and critical assessment of present to denote the reported facts and fantasy of knowledge. It’s a kind of looking back to go ahead. The present paper is organized in this conceptual framework. It contains three objectives which are closely interrelated. First is to address the retrospective of ethnography in searching for strength of its intellectual foundation. It revisits the ethnographic trend in social science to know the gradual development of anthropology as a discipline. Second is to figure out the contemporary predicament of anthropology. It deals with how contemporary crisis in anthropology dignifies ethnography, the way of inquiry and output of research, as fantasy. Subsequently, the paper will address what are the real facts that have produced the malaise for anthropology in contemporary world. Finally, it talks about the future of anthropology with some propositions recurrently discussed in anthropological scholarship.
How to cite this article:
Nasir Uddin . Facts and Fantasy of Knowledge Retrospective of Ethnography for the Future of Anthropology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/pjssci.2005.978.985
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1683-8831/pjssci.2005.978.985