Abstract

The A. uses ways of talking about the concept of « resistance » to critique the division between ethnography and theory in anthropology. The French concept of debrouillardise, as used par Auvergnat farmers, is a way of talking about social manipulation which can express accomodation, resistance, cunning, ways of « making out », and ways of « making do ». Fieldwork incidents in which the A. unwittinggly came to be implicated in behaviors labelled as such helped her to rethink her own perspective on power.

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