Vol. 7 No. 1 (1990)
Articles

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

Published 1990-01-01

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.