KULTUREL KOMPLEKSITET OG EMPIRI-BRICOLAGE: Refleksioner over et projekt om etniske minoritetsungdom og multikulturalisme

Resumé

Yvonne Mørck: Cultural Complexity and

Empirical Bricolage - Reflections on a

Project on Ethnic Minority Youth and

Multiculturalism

The article draws on experiences from fieldwork

among ethnic minority youths in the

greater Copenhagen area as well as on

studies in London. In order to do anthropological

work in the complex and modem

world, especially in urban spaces of the metropolis,

the anthropologist needs more

sophisticated methods and sources of information

than conventional anthropology can

produce. At the same time different theoretical

perspectives should supplement one

another. This implies that on the methodological/

empirical as well as on the theoretical

level we need the model of „bricolage" in

order to refine our analysis. The anthropologist

should therefore be a „nomadic subject"

with a „nomadic consciousness" as the advocated

nomadism refers to a kind of critical

consciousness that resists settling into

socially coded modes of thought and behaviour.