The predicament of culture :
Clifford, James, 1945-
The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988. - xii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 349-370.
CONTENTS : The pure products go crazy -- On ethnographic authority -- Power and dialogue in ethnography: Marcel Griaule's initiation -- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski -- On ethnographic surrealism -- A poetics of displacement: Victor Segalen -- Tell about your trip: Michel Leiris -- A politics of neologism: Aimé Césaire -- The jardin des plantes: postcards -- Histories of the tribal and the modern -- On collecting art and culture -- On Orientalism -- Identity in Mashpee.
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Ethnology--History--20th century.
Ethnology--Philosophy.
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The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988. - xii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 349-370.
CONTENTS : The pure products go crazy -- On ethnographic authority -- Power and dialogue in ethnography: Marcel Griaule's initiation -- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski -- On ethnographic surrealism -- A poetics of displacement: Victor Segalen -- Tell about your trip: Michel Leiris -- A politics of neologism: Aimé Césaire -- The jardin des plantes: postcards -- Histories of the tribal and the modern -- On collecting art and culture -- On Orientalism -- Identity in Mashpee.
0674698428 (alk. paper) 0674698436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
87024173
Ethnology--History--20th century.
Ethnology--Philosophy.
306/.09