TALKING ABOUT RESISTANCE - ETHNOGRAPHY AND THEORY IN RURAL FRANCE

This article uses ways of talking about the concept of ''resistance'' to critique the division between ethnography and theory in anthropolog y. The French concept of debrouillardise, as used by Auvergnat farmers , is a way of talking about social manipulation which can express acco mmodation, resistance, cunning, ways of ''making out,'' and ways of '' making do.'' Fieldwork incidents in which the ethnographer unwittingly came to be implicated in behaviors labelled as such helped her to ret hink her own perspectives on power.