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Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography / edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010], c1986.Edition: 25th anniversary ed. / with a foreword by Kim FortunDescription: xxv, 305 p. ; 1 ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780520266025 (pbk.)
  • 0520266021 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 22
LOC classification:
  • GN307.7 .W75 2010
Contents:
Introduction : partial truths / James Clifford -- Fieldwork in common places / Mary Louise Pratt -- Hermes' dilemma : the masking of subversion in ethnographic description / Vincent Crapanzano -- From the door of his tent : the fieldworker and the inquisitor / Renato Rosaldo -- On ethnographic allegory / James Clifford -- Post-modern ethnography : from document of the occult to occult document / Stephen A. Tyler -- The concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology / Talal Asad -- Contemporary problems of ethnography in the modern world system / George E. Marcus -- Ethnicity and the post-modern arts of memory / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Representations are social facts : modernity and post-modernity in anthropology / Paul Rabinow -- Afterword : ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / George E. Marcus.
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Books Books Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts 305.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SSLA-B-5096

Originally published: c1986. With new foreword.

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"A School of American Research advanced seminar."

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

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

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