Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
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The Global and the Local in Doing Theory
I think reflexivity is important reflexivity and criticality again talking about common perception there's a common perception that being reflexive is just to reflect, think and reflect. The argument in this book and the broader argument of doing theory is that reflexivity can't just sitting back and reflecting all of us can reflect but we have to read. We have to be already theoretically informed to reflect what are we reflecting say reflecting about new anthropological methods object and subject. There's a tendency now to see the words and of the terms as equivalent to doing theory and i think that is something which we need to really engage with seriouslythat theorizing is not just a set of words you know but it's
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