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Epilogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2012

Shirley Brice Heath
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity: a past error may urge a grand retrieval.

(Eliot 1871–1872/1963, p. 810)

Anthropologists have been accused of representing an essential linearity about generations across time. That is not the case for the individuals whose stories are told here. They follow few lines or paths that might have been predicted for them. Instead they have worked and played in spots of time and place; theirs are dotted rather than straight lines. All indications are that these dotted lines will continue to go in many directions and will have beginnings and endings along the way, spinning out into webs of differing proportion, strength, and connection.

Where are the children of Trackton and Roadville and their children today and where do they see themselves headed?

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Words at Work and Play
Three Decades in Family and Community Life
, pp. 166 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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  • Epilogue
  • Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Words at Work and Play
  • Online publication: 05 August 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046206.011
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  • Epilogue
  • Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Words at Work and Play
  • Online publication: 05 August 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046206.011
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  • Epilogue
  • Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University, California
  • Book: Words at Work and Play
  • Online publication: 05 August 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139046206.011
Available formats
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