A PEDAGOGICAL NOTE
I have deliberately not footnoted the implicit references to theoretical analyses that drive this piece. For pedagogical purposes I will just mention that one should hear echoes of, most directly, Bourdieu on doxa and the violence of arbitrary form (1972), Max Weber on ideal-type (1949), Lave and Wenger on communities of practice (1991), Merleau-Ponty on the power of structured language for expression (1973 [1969]), as well as the critique of Bourdieu’s theory of habitus McDermott and I recently published (1998). More hidden are understandings building on Garfinkel (2002), de Certeau (1984 [1980]), Boon (1999).
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