TY - BOOK AU - Sjöblom,Tom TI - “Just a Hobo” PY - 2003///. N1 - 55 N2 - The purpose of ethnography is to produce a holistic description of the culture under scrutiny. Although ethnographic writing is often described as objective, every ethnographic description is always biased by an underlying theory. Through a discussion of how the phenomenon of shamanism has been treated by ethnographers the author shows that better ethnographies could be obtained by making theoretical presuppositions explicit and visible UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2003-2-page-255?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -