ABSTRACT
Chapter Seven is descended from, an essay written in 1992 as a tribute to Greg Dening (1994a). The festschrift in which it was published is a startling, eclectic, intensely personal collection—befitting Dening’s catholic interests and influence, reflexive risk-taking and impatience with disciplinary fundamentalism. It was also so parochially published as to be little read outside its city of publication—befitting Denings modesty and institutional loyalty. The essay, re-presented here in abridged and altered form, is the fulcrum for Part Three. At once historical ethnography and ethnographic history, it spans the comparative scope of Chapter Six and the detailed intimacy of Chapter Eight, helping to work an integrated narrative out of three related but discrete articles, and to reconcile the residual essentialism of the former with the qualified, textualised realism of the latter.
