%0 Journal Article
%T Antropologia depois do "fim da teoria"
%A Mata
%A Giulle Vieira da
%J Horizontes Antropol¨®gicos
%D 2012
%I Programa de P¨®s-Gradua??o em Antropologia Social - IFCH-UFRGS
%R 10.1590/S0104-71832012000100008
%X the paper proposes a definition of ethnography in rickert's terms: an anthropological narrative that is a "synthesis of reality", or rather a "concept of reality". its function is to reduce the complexity of reality in order to allow it to be perceived and to be thought. in this sense, all ethnography is a "reduction"; an efficient tool for the anthropologist who recognizes the problem of the relationship between explanation and unpredictability of reality, but who refuses to give up the idea of science as a way of organizing knowledge.
%K anthropological narrative
%K ethnography
%K "synthesis of reality"
%K theory.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-71832012000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en