Paul Rabinow's Reflections On Fieldwork In Morocco

Paul Rabinow is Professor of anthropology at the University of California, he is born June 21, 1944. Rabinow is a Director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former Director of Human Practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). He is perhaps most famous for his widely influential commentary and expertise on the French philosopher Michel Foucault. (Wiki)
Paul Rabinow decides to sell everything and move to Morocco to become an anthropologist, two days after the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The year was 1968 where the world was booming with changes, revolutions, and explorations. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco would be “Rabinow’s first experience doing fieldwork, qualifying him as an ‘experienced anthropologist’ among his graduate school friends.” Rabinow’s book is a personal version about the excitement and frustrations personified in the process of ‘changing academic knowledge into the real world, the art of interpretation, and the simultaneous observation and experience of ‘otherness’ using a modified phenomenological method’. It is more of a reflection on his emotions, his positions and the methodology. This book is a continuation of the first book, which was very detailed about fieldwork in Morocco.
Rabinow’s phenomenological method is defined as “a movement in which each cultural figure finds its meaning not in what precedes is but in what follows (Rabinow 6.)” This complete approach gives each