ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with explicit knowledge: with how a social group acknowledges the actions of persons as a part of the accepted conventions of their common world. Kewa portraits and stories are collages made up of the author representations of people's self-accounts, their accounts of others and the author observations of their talk and actions. In the process, they show how knowledge of social arrangements is made explicit and thus enable the elaboration of an epistemological point about the effectiveness of social action. The portraits depict real social actions in which strong actors undoubtedly emerge; but their emergence becomes socially visible as a struggle to establish an approved self. Kewa stories are actions for creating social realities, not information about some other process.
