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The atheist anthropologist: Believers and non-believers in anthropological fieldwork†

  1. Ruy Llera Blans

Article first published online: 19 JAN 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2006.tb00036.x

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Social Anthropology

Social Anthropology

Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 223–234, June 2006

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Blans, R. L. (2006), The atheist anthropologist: Believers and non-believers in anthropological fieldwork. Social Anthropology, 14: 223–234. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2006.tb00036.x

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  1. Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisbo Avenida Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt, 9 Lisboa Portugal ruy.blanes@ics.ul.pt

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    This text is part of ongoing PhD research on music, religion and identity among Portuguese and Spanish gypsies conducted at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Dr João Pina-Cabral. Presented at the Younger Scholars Forum (‘When communication ends …’) at the Eighth Biennial Conference of the EASA held in Vienna in September 2004, it incorporates further reflections promoted by the comments and suggestions received at that event, and also by further ethnographic fieldwork developed in Madrid since October 2004. Hoping I don't forget anyone, I would like to thank my colleagues and teachers for their diverse contributions along the way: my fellow ‘younger scholars’, RaneWillerslev, Gillian Evans and Barak Kalir; convenors Penny Harvey and Thomas Fillitz, who did not cease their support at the end of the forum, but kept reviewing and discussing the text over the months that followed; Ram on Sarro; José Mapril; Catarina Fróois; Rita Jorge; Vlad Naumescu; Andrés Barrera; Ubaldo Martínez Veiga; Peter Pels; and, of course, João de Pina-Cabral. I would also like to thank the Marie Curie Foundation for granting financial assistance for me to attend the conference.

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