Language and ethnography: a reply to Allard

It is a privilege to have The owners of kinship reviewed with such passion. Despite his critical opinion of the book, Allard has obviously been taken by it: he dissects it, wrestles with it, at times admires it, but ultimately cannot endorse it. The first part of his review is largely positive, pra...

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Главный автор: Costa, Luiz
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Anglais
Опубликовано: Journal de la Société des américanistes 2019
Online-ссылка:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Итог:It is a privilege to have The owners of kinship reviewed with such passion. Despite his critical opinion of the book, Allard has obviously been taken by it: he dissects it, wrestles with it, at times admires it, but ultimately cannot endorse it. The first part of his review is largely positive, praising what he understands to be the book’s fascinating ethnographic contributions. But, in a surprising turn, the second part reviews an entirely different book, one that dismisses ethnography in f...