The investment of theory in ethnography in social anthropology by Balbi, Fernando Alberto

“…I argue that ethnography involves the deployment of certain analytical procedures that lead to the relativization of theory —and, eventually, to its reformulation— through its confrontation with ethnographic materials: the dynamic integration of the native perspectives in the analysis; the combination of holism, the restriction of the preselection of ethnographic materials, and their strict contextualization; and various uses of comparison. …”
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