BROKEN MIRRORS: The Deconstruction of Straw Women, and Mutual Understanding

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  • Linda J. EppHeise

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15173/nexus.v7i1.83

Abstract

This paper deconstructs the anthropological claim to mutual understanding. I use the life-story project of female anthropologists to support my claim that life-stories are communicative events. As 'negotiated dialogue' they arise more from difference than from mutual understanding.

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Published

1990-01-01

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