ABSTRACT
It is entirely obvious to any contemporary scholar that there can be no neutral language of description: and that is especially clear when the social and cultural domains are in question … Our textual practices themselves constitute the social realities constructed and reconstructed in ethnographic writing. Theory and method are inextricably linked: they are equally closely tied to modes of writing … The fully mature ethnography requires a reflexive awareness of its own writing, the possibilities and limits of its own language, and a principled exploration of its mode of representations.
