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The ethnographic present revisited
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2001
Abstract
The concept of ‘ethnographic present’ as discussed in methodological texts in our discipline has been very badly served. In fact, the concept could be methodologically very useful. Instead of continuing to be frightened by the ‘functionalist’ bogeyman, we should usefully apply the phrase ‘ethnographic present’ to speak of the awareness of the conjunctural nature of all ethnography.
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