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This book has been written by two co-authors, Liria Hernández and Paloma Gay y Blasco. We use two different fonts in order to make visible each of our voices. Liria and Paloma have approached the writing of this reciprocal text from very different standpoints. Liria has been guided by her Evangelical beliefs and her certainty that this book is part of God’s plan. Paloma has been preoccupied with the expectations of the ethnographic genre and their impact on her own and Liria’s writings. Liria’s and Paloma’s two kinds of knowledge are placed in dialogue, and the many tensions between them remain unresolved. The two authors reflect on some of the beliefs, desires and fears that have made up the undercurrent to their collaborative project.
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Gay y Blasco, P., Hernández, L. (2020). About God and About Anthropology. In: Writing Friendship. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26542-7_6
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