Rural Rebelsand colonial Kenya: the argument against Buijtenhuijs's re-analysis

Autor: Audrey Wipper
Rok vydání: 1988
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Zdroj: Africa. 58:353-363
ISSN: 1750-0184
0001-9720
Popis: Robert Buijtenhuijs's critique of my bookRural Rebels(1977) is interesting because it highlights serious flaws that can be made in critical analysis, among them the ‘I think the writer means’ fallacy, a false dichotomy, reductionism and a disregard for the quality of the data. Since space limitations prevent me from replying to all of Buijtenhuijs's criticisms (his critique is three times longer than my permitted reply) I will limit myself to the aforementioned that are matters of more general concern.
Databáze: OpenAIRE