I found the beginning of this essay entertaining and endearing but the voice and tone changed immediately when she started to get historical. I don’t think it was a smooth transition. I feel cool when I say ‘autoethnographic.’
So Adam and Eve appear in an Inca drawing? Interesting…
“Communities are distinguished…not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined.” This applies to more than the speech community. We live in a society that puts a lot of blind faith in people being honest and not cheating. Again, a style that is imagined.
Page 527: “…from the point of view of the teacher and teaching, not from the point of view of pupils and pupiling (the word doesn’t even exist, thought the thing certainly does).” I love this. She could’ve just said nothing and I wouldn’t have known any different but it is true. Although “learner” could have been used, but not as effectively.
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