An Albanian Bektashi Master, Discourse Ethnography of Learning and the Spiritual Making of an Anthropologist: An Account on Method and Content

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Review article: Frances Trix, Spiritual discourse: learning with an Islamic master. Conduct and Communication Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, xi+189p. ISBN 978-0-8122-3165-6. Discourse analysis and ethnography are now sophisticated research methods used in fieldwork by both linguist and cultural or social anthropologists. Certainly the object of research could be the research method itself, as the recent tendencies in both (sub-) disciplines have made abundantly clear that reflexive ethnography and discourse analysis is become central for the current fundamental developments in anthropological theory. The book published by Frances Trix, Spiritual discourse: learning with an Islamic master (Conduct and Communication Series, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), certainly addressed important issues in this respect.