Writing culture :

Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography / edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus. - 25th anniversary ed. / with a foreword by Kim Fortun. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010], c1986. - xxv, 305 p. ; 1 ill. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: c1986. With new foreword. Publication date from publisher's website. "A School of American Research advanced seminar."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-294) and index.

Introduction : partial truths / Fieldwork in common places / Hermes' dilemma : the masking of subversion in ethnographic description / From the door of his tent : the fieldworker and the inquisitor / On ethnographic allegory / Post-modern ethnography : from document of the occult to occult document / The concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology / Contemporary problems of ethnography in the modern world system / Ethnicity and the post-modern arts of memory / Representations are social facts : modernity and post-modernity in anthropology / Afterword : ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / James Clifford -- Mary Louise Pratt -- Vincent Crapanzano -- Renato Rosaldo -- James Clifford -- Stephen A. Tyler -- Talal Asad -- George E. Marcus -- Michael M.J. Fischer -- Paul Rabinow -- George E. Marcus.

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Ethnology--Authorship--Congresses.
Ethnology--Methodology--Congresses.

GN307.7 / .W75 2010

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