the real was a metaphor for the true– and not identical with it. Tuhami had been speaking the truth from the very start…, but I had been listening only for the real, which I mistook for the true“ (pg 130).
So Crapanzano is very much the subject of his own work as well.
Ethnography, for me at least, is a way of exploring, not only the intended subject, but myself as well.
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