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The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.Description: xii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674698428 (alk. paper)
  • 0674698436 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.09 19
Contents:
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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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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