A fourth critic of the Enlightenment: Michel de Certeau and the ethnography of subjectivity

Social Anthropology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-106

  Mitchell, Jon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropological theory; Counter Enlightenment; De Certeau; Resistance; Structure and agency; Subjectivity; Tactics and strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249826941     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2007.00001.x     Document Type: Article

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