On 25/07/2007, at 9:57 PM, Danny Butt wrote:
> In anthropology, by my reading, not even the tradition initiated by
> Boas nor even Geertz ever dropped what James Clifford calls a
> monopolisation on observational and representational authority. The
> tradition would highlight the subjectivity of interpretation, but
> never really raised the politics of this monopolisation, which
> clearly has both a scientific and positivist history.
There are some important exceptions. One that I found very useful to
illustrate our 'logic of positions' (one of our basic investigative
principles) ' is the work of a French Anthropologist, Jeanne Favret-
Saada
Favret-Saada Jeanne 1980. Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage.
(Les mots, la mort, les sorts). Translated from the French by
Catherine Cullen. Cambridge: University Press.
David
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