The repugnant cultural other speaks back: Christian identity as ethnographic 'standpoint'

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 371-391

  Howell, Brian M ^a,b  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Christianity; Epistemology; Ethnography; Native ethnography; Positionality; Standpoint theory; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249152198     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499607083426     Document Type: Review

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