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Following Pierre Bourdieu into the eld • Loïc Wacquant University of California, Berkeley , USA New School for Social Research, New York, USA Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris, France ABSTRACT  Attending to Bourdieu’s early eld studies conducted concurrently in colonial Algeria and in his childhood village of Béarn in southwestern France sets his scientic approach and output into a new light: it reveals the twinned ethnographic roots of his theoretical enterprise; it dissolves the caricatural gure of the ‘reproduction theori st’ oblivious to historical change; and it dispels the academic ction of the ‘practice theorist’ by displaying how Bourdieu’s conceptual innovations (such as the reintroduction of habitus) were driven by questions of eld research centered on social transformation, cultural disjuncture, and the ssuring of consciousness. Using each site as a living laboratory to cross-analyz e the other enabled Bourdieu to discover the specicity of the ‘universally prelogic al logic of practice’ and led him to break out of the structuralist paradigm. It also stimulated him to translate his existential disquiet with the scholastic posture into a methodical return onto the operations and tools of objectivation that evolved into his trademark stance of epistemic reexivity. Recouplin g his youthful inquiries in Kabylia and Béarn further reveals how, foreshadowing the ‘repatriation’ of anthropolog y after the close of the imperial age, Bourdieu revoked the dominant conception of ethnograph y as a heroic exploration of otherness and pioneered multi-sited ethnography as a means for controlling the construction of the object. Bourdieu’s paired eld studies of social structure and sentiment in the far-away colony and the mother-country not only efface in practice the disciplinary division between sociology and anthropology. They demonstrate that one can conduct ‘insider graphy Copyright © 2004 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) www.sagepublications.com Vol 5(4): 387–414[DOI: 10.1177/1466138104052259] ARTICLE 01_052259_Wacquant (to/d) 25/2/05 8:42 am Page 387

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