It is by no means certain that the application of deconstructivist literary criticism to the ethnographic corpus can tell us much that is not banal or obvious (for example, that Evans-Pritchard lived during the colonial era).
Marc Augé, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity, p. 30
This book is making me roll my eyes a lot, but it has some interesting observations as well. This point, in particular, can be extended to a wide variety of other academic fields.
