evocative voice

is a rhetorical/theoretical strategy that can 'call forth a world,' in all its particular complexity and richness, and at the same time problematize that world by questioning the notion that the writer's account is a comprehensive worldview.

This is a 'rhetorical/theoretical strategy' that can 'call forth a world,' in all its particular complexity and richness, and at the same time problematize that world by questioning the notion that the writer's account is a comprehensive worldview (Kondo 1990, 3-33). The evocative voice, Kondo says, in combination with an author's reflexive passages, can indicate the possibilities and limitations involved in a process during which researchers and people in their 'fields' can seek 'to understand each other within shifting fields of power and meaning' (8) (quoted in Jennifer Sisher 'when men dance'

is an approach toward ethnographic writing capable of indicating the possibilities and limitations involved in a process during which researchers and people in their fields can seek to understand each other within shifting fields of power and meaning.

evocative voice, n.Definitions

evocative voice