Commentarium

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Theoretical essays in this compendium are written to illuminate the obscurities (and/or to obscure the hyper-clarity that narrative sometimes imputes to social action) that the ethnography encounters. These are my comments, assembled from the bricolage (there, I said it) of theories I’ve encountered in the past decades. The reader will normally encounter each essay as a link from the main ethnographic text, and then return (using their browser’s “BACK” button) to the ethnographic text encumbered (and perhaps empowered) with some new theoretical tools. There is a navigation bar on the bottom of the essays that allow the reader to wander directly from theoretical essay to theoretical essay without returning to the main text.