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Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar / edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1986]Description: ix, 305 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520057295
  • 9780520057296
Other title:
  • Poetics and politics of ethnography
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306 21
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
Production credits:
  • Based on discussions held at a seminar at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in Apr. 1984
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""Experiments in contemporary anthropology.""--Jacket

Revised versions of the papers presented at a seminar held in Santa Fe, N.M., April 1984

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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

Based on discussions held at a seminar at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in Apr. 1984

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