3. Reply to Vaia Touna: Situated Descriptions
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 3. Reply to Vaia Touna: Situated Descriptions - Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Steven Ramey; University of Alabama; United States |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religious Studies; social sciences |
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| 6. | Description | Abstract | Building on Vaia Touna’s response to my chapter on the construction of the nones, I argue that our academic descriptions should reflect the contingent nature of descriptions that Touna emphasizes. Any description of past actions, an item, or a scholar’s work makes selections and emphases that create the object of its discussion. Rather than arguing that some descriptions are true and others are false, I suggest that descriptions can be more or less convincing and valuable. I propose three ways of analyzing any description’s incompleteness, including its correspondence to evidence, the coherence of the connections presented, and the classifications employed. Then I propose three strategies to be more self-reflexive about the contingency of descriptions and their role in constituting the object of their discourse, and I demonstrate some of those strategies by rewriting a paragraph of my original chapter in which I failed to acknowledge the limited nature of the narrative. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 07-Jan-2019 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/23801 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.23801 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
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| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |