agency

hiorripilation

spartan form of reflexivity

word

nationality

Sri Lankan

race / ethnicity

Tamil

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

innovator in the field of

South Asian anthropology

anthropology

is defined simply as the human habit of changing habits.

But most important, one of the habits that humans have by virtue of their human being is that of changing habits' (Daniel 1998: 81)

is grounded in the assumption that humans have the habit of changing habits.

But most important, one of the habits that humans have by virtue of their human being is that of changing habits' (Daniel 1998:81)

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is a brief, small, particle-like reflexivity in ethnography.

E. Valentine Daniel has written of the metaphor of interclusion in ethnography and the more 'spartan form of relexivity' that then becomes visible: 'I am thinking of the ultimate in intercluding marks, the hyphen. Reflexivity in ethnography can be brief, small, a particle in flight or a fleeting particular, a crepuscular detail... hyphen-like: holding together and holding apart, maintaining continuity and creating a breach, uniting and separating, estranging and binding, and most importantly, dividing but also compounding' (Ivy 1995 : 28)

is a symbol that, even at the edges, pulls one toward culture's center. A deed, even when culturally centered, always threatens to push against culture's limits.

Words are symbols that, even at the edges, pull one toward culture's center. Deeds, even when culturally centered -'habitus' notwithstanding -threaten to push against culture's limits' (Daniel 1996: 199)

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