The Encounter Never Ends

The Encounter Never EndsA reconsideration of the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge. The Encounter Never Ends offers a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between fieldwork and anthropological knowledge through the analysis of Tamil ritual practice in a South Indian village. Isabelle Clark Decs revisits field notes taken more than fifteen years earlier, and reveals what she intended when she took the notes, what she came to understand and

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A critical look at urban school reform efforts

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Each section includes a discussion of the political and intellectual contexts in which the texts were written

Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive

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through attention to local values and needs