The three readings draw a similar argumentative position
(particularly Daston): that is, they point to the dubious veracity of
representation (e.g characterization and idealization) of objects, cutlures,
people. However, to underpin this dubiousness only through differentiation of
what is considered “subjective” and what is considered “objective” is, from my
view, a simplification. To complicate this tension, it would be necessary (I
think) to explore whether outside of the objective anthropological domain, what
actually constitutes a notion of the objective, if there even is a notion? In this
sense, how can we answer the question of the definite-ness of an action rather
than through subjective/objective interpretation? Is it a matter of
perspective, of totally relegating the anthropologist to a non-existent,
passive role, of solely one who observes and catalogues and presents rather
than one who interprets? Further, in a
particular culturally context, is the notion of objectivity synonymous with the
notion of what is immutable?
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