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Clifford, James Marcus, George E.

Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar / George E Marcus - , Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , [2010], ©1986. - xxv, 305 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm.

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

ISBN: 9780520266025

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnography
Methodology
Society
Ethnology Methodology

Dewey Class. No.: 306 CLI