Abstract

to communities they write about (in case of Alford Young's review of Sharman, reviewer does as well). Each book is shaped by author's singular voice, with no scientific pretense that experience is replicable and that another trained observer would come up with roughly same account. At same time, all books are about much more than just author's subjective encounter with the other. Each author seems to have journeyed through postmodern critique only to come out safely on other side, more sophisticated for expe rience yet not incapacitated by it. The awareness of limits of their own subjectivity does not keep them from making arguments?and telling sociologically meaningful stories?about people whose lives and com munities they write about.

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