PHENOMENOLOGY OF NATIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHIC-MEMOIR TEXT – INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE OF SCHUTZIAN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The main source of inspiration in writing this experimental essay comes from ideas of Alfred Schutz collected in his capital work The Problem of Social Reality. Comprehensions and analytical categories of this major theorist served me as a unique methodological guidebook in analyzing and interpreting the idiosyncratic text (native autobiography proper; ethnobiography) of my ethnographic informant from Montenegro. My intention is to treat this native text of local bricoleuse as a laic report of and primary resource for description of the particular cultural version of the everyday world in phenomenological terms. The goal is to understand on this concrete example how the writer as the subject of the narrative places herself in her social world, starting from her biographic situation and using the supply of available knowledge. The anthropological interpretation of the meaning of text should be focused on the actor, i.e. her writing as intended action and its motives within a given socio-cultural context and time perspective.