This text discusses the theoretical implications of the observation that the ethnographic encounter is permeated with the ‘unspoken’; that is, a lengthy and varied series of ethnographic findings that are not grounded in discursive communication. Adapting Bourdieu’s concept of ‘strategy’ to examples taken from the ethnography of Alto Minho (NW Portugal), the essay attempts to go beyond the sociocentric framework that still dominates current anthropological theory.
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