 | Terrence J. McDonald - History - 1996 - 432 pages
...anthropologist and the historian are charged with representing the lives of living or once-living people, and as we attempt to push these people into the molds...The final text is a product of our pushing and their back-pushing, and no text, however "dominant," lacks the traces of this counterforce. Indeed, if the... | |
 | Kathleen Canning - Business & Economics - 1996 - 370 pages
...room for those on the other side of our historical or ethnographic texts, to recognize that as 'Ve attempt to push these people into the molds of our texts, they push back." 36 In this book the female body constitutes an intriguing point at which discourses and everyday experiences... | |
 | Laura M. Ahearn - Education - 2001 - 316 pages
...anthropologist and the historian are charged with representing the lives of living or once-living people, and as we attempt to push these people into the molds of our texts, they push back" (1995:189; emphasis in the original). The meanings that emerge from Junigau residents' words and actions... | |
 | Kathleen Canning - Business & Economics - 2002 - 372 pages
...to make room for those on the other side of our historical or ethnographic texts, to recognize that as "we attempt to push these people into the molds of our texts, they push back."36 In this book the female body constitutes an intriguing point at which discourses and everyday... | |
 | Sherry B. Ortner - Social Science - 2006 - 206 pages
...me precisely the difference between the novelist's task and the ethnographer's (or the historian's). The anthropologist and the historian are charged with...however dominant, lacks the traces of this counterforce. Indeed, if the line between fiction and ethnography is being blurred, the blurring has had at least... | |
 | Kathleen Canning - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...to make room for those on the other side of our historical or ethnographic texts, to recognize that as "we attempt to push these people into the molds of our texts, they push back."41 A conception of agency as a site of mediation between discourses and experiences serves not... | |
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The anthropologist and the historian are charged with representing the lives of people who are living or once lived, and as we attempt to push these people into the molds of our texts, they push back. 