Post-Interpretive Anthropology

Abstract

This paper is an account of two distinctive paradigms in anthropology viewed in historical perspective. The movement away from the objectivism positivist model has been building gradually. Since Bateson's Naven, ethnographic self-consciousness has moved the anthropologist from periphery to center stage, and moved the concept of culture out of anthropology and onto the streets. Interpretive anthropology developed as post-paradigm , post-colonial post-modern , yet to some it appears that interpretive anthropology has replaced one orthodoxy with another. The need for a post-interpretive anthropology is indicated. An examination of the concept of harmony as control is used as illustration of a less cloistered and composite set of strategies that cross paradigms and that follow from the question, [interpretive anthropology , positivist , paradigm harmony , composite , orthodoxy]

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