Alevi-Olmayan Bir Araştırmacı Olarak Alevilik Üzerine Çalışmak: Göç-Mekânda Ama Evde Çok-Alanlı Etnografi

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1 - Ethnography, 52 - 72, 15.06.2017

Besim Can Zırh

Abstract

Bu çalışma etnografi yöntemine dair bir tartışmaya, çok-alanlı bir etnografi saha araştırmasından doğru katkı sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. 1980’lerle birlikte araştırmacının üyesi olduğu toplulukla çalıştığı saha deneyimlerini betimlemek üzere önerilen “evde antropoloji” yaklaşımı, antropolojide bilgi üretme sürecini de zorunlu olarak yeniden düşünmemizi gerektiren bir tartışma gündemi olmuştur. Bu tartışmaya yaklaşmazdan evvel Malinowski’den doğru geleneksel etnografi yöntemini betimleyerek sonraki kuşaklara miras kalan iki soruya odaklanacağım. Etnografi yöntemine özgünlüğünü veren “ötekilik sarsıntısı” deneyiminin doğal sahnesi olarak düşünülen “sahanın” gerçekte inşaa edilen bir mekân olması düşüncesini ziyaretle “evde antropoloji” yaklaşımına dair bir tartışma yürütmeyi amaçlıyorum. Son kısımda ise Alevi-olmayan bir antropolog olarak gurbet-mekânda ama evde Alevilik konusunda gerçekleştirdiğim çok-alanlı saha çalışmasından öz-düşünümsel bazı notlar aktararak Türkiye düzleminde konunun önemini tartışmaya açmaya çalışacağım.

Keywords

etnografi, evde antropoloji, yöntem, Alevilik, göç

Studying On Alevism as a Non-Alevi Researcher: Multi-Sited Ethnography on the Context of Migration Yet At Home

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to a debate on the ethnographic methodology from a multi-sited research I conducted among my nationals at-home-abroad. During the 1980s, debates on this newly emerging research position, commonly known as, “anthropology at home,” became institutionalized and this issue inevitably lead to reconsideration of the knowledge production in anthropology. Before adressing this issue, I will attempt to define methodological inclinations of ethnography in the light of Malinowski’s pioneering portrayal, which has bequeathed us two significant questions: (a) how to locate the role of “shock of otherness” in producing anthropological knowledge and (b) how to understand the “field” imagined as the natural scene of this production. At the end of the paper, I will focus more on my own ethnographic experience as a non-Alevi researcher among fellow nationals (Alevis) in various locales at home (Turkey) and abroad (Europe) to be able to discuss the issue of “anthropology at home” in the case of Turkey.   

Keywords

ethnography, anthropology at home, Alevism, methodology, migration

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