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At the Core, Beyond Reach: Sufism and Words Flying Away in the Field

Ch. 1. P. 17–30.
Di Puppo L.
Language: English
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Keywords: fieldwork methodsSufismanthropological fieldworkethnographic fieldworkEthnographic Limits

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Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits
Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits
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