Angie Heo

Angie Heo

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

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Three Classic Readings of ‘Ethnographic Practice’ in Religious Studies‘

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Three Classroom Readings of ‘Ethnographic Practice’ in Religious Studies.

The author looks at several models of ethnographic practices of fieldwork and writing and their possible contributions to religious studies. She notes that American anthropologist Clifford Geertz favored a cultural-interpretivist approach to ethnography, while French philosopher Michel de Certeau observes that the value of ethnographic writing lies in its re-inscription of alterity. She also mentions the

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