Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal

1995/01/01 by Sherry B. Ortner · 11 citations
Social Sciences · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0010417500019587

Abstract

This essay traces the effects of what I call ethnographic refusal on a series of studies surrounding the subject of resistance. 1 I argue that many of the most influential studies of resistance are severely limited by the lack of an ethnographic perspective. Resistance studies in turn are meant to stand in for a great deal of interdisciplinary work being done these days within and across the social sciences, history, literature, cultural studies, and so forth.

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