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Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar / George E Marcus

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.Publication details: , Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , [2010], ©1986.Description: xxv, 305 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780520266025
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 CLI
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
Summary: This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which 'Writing Culture' has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years
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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

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which 'Writing Culture' has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years

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