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On Ethnography without Tears

Author(s) -

Michael Carrithers,

Christopher N Hahn,

Thomas Hauschild,

Russell Thornton,

Paul A. Roth

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

current anthropology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1537-5382

pISSN - 0011-3204

DOI - 10.1086/203803

Subject(s) - ethnography , postmodernism , feminism , anthropology , sociology , art history , library science , history , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , gender studies

Critiques of ethnographic texts based on analysis of their rhetoric attribute pistemological significance to the literary devices used to represent oneself and others. In particular, rhetorical devices, and especially those that obscure authorial invention, are taken to be constitutive of a text's authority, i.e., the basis for warranting claims. I argue that the literary analysis of authority confuses literary, epistemological, and political issues.

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