ABSTRACT

In recent decades, the boundaries between the humanities and the social sciences have become not simply “blurred” as Clifford Geertz (1983) suggests, but in many cases have actually dissolved. This dissolution has occurred at the conceptual level in terms of rethinking how we engage in theorizing both the object of research and our position as theorists; at the methodological level in terms of how we actually go about doing research; and at the representational level in terms of how we construct research accounts and who takes part in that process.