Publication details
"Posvátná Indie" : Prezentace a reprezentace v sociálněvědním textu
| Title in English | "Sacred India" : Presentation and representation in a social-scientific text |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Independently on the origin of the texts used as data in research, these texts enter into an anlysis and become variously intertwined with the analytical text writen by the researcher. In the process of writing the data undergo numerous transformations. Some of them are inevitable, in fact desired part of the scientific writing. Too often, however, the scientific text is less a result of the transformative work based on the data, and more the result of the transformations within the data. Or, to put it simply, of adapting, instead of respecting the data. Such a work of adaptation, instead of analysis, is based on discreet operations based simply on too easy acceptance of scientist's cultural presumptions and socialy shared orders of dicourse. How some of these presumptions and orders of discourse cause hradly noticeable, but analyticaly, politicaly and ethicaly important transformations within the data is demonstrated by some seemingly unproblematic notions related to Indian religions. |
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