Mano de obra. El cuerpo en los trabajos etnográficos de Pirre Bourdieu en Argelia
Abstract
A decade later after Algeria, Pierre Bourdieu wrote that his ethnographic researches were a kind of an "epistemological experiment". The nonconformity results of his "scholastic" academic training became in a systematical reflexivity of the objectification, the techniques and the social conditions. Thus, this paper is proposing to review, investigate and analyse the concept "body" in the fieldwork in the 60’s in Algeria. This work allowed us to think in this hypothesis: bodies are presented in the practice as well as the practice is represented on the bodies. This hypothesis shows us one of the dimensions of which subsequently will be incorporated in Bourdieu's habitus: the non-conscious in-corporation of social practices.(1) The headline "Work force" (Mano de obra) comes from the understanding that this colloquial phrase includes the idea that workers “work with the body”, a body often understood as natural.Downloads
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