Writing Culture (Record no. 66680)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0520057295
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.8 CLI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Clifford, James
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Personal name Marcus, George E.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Writing Culture
Remainder of title : The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography.
Statement of responsibility, etc /James Clifford.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc California
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of California Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1986.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix,305p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
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520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In these new essays, a group of experienced ethnographers, a literary critic, and a historian of anthropology, all known for advanced analytic work on ethnographic writing, place ethnography at the center of a new intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. The authors analyze classic examples of cultural description, from Goethe and Catlin to Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, and Le Roy Ladurie, showing the persistence of allegorial patterns and rhetorical tropes. They assess recent experimental trends and explore the functions of orality, ethnicity, and power in ethnographic composition."Writing Culture" argues that ethnography is in the midst of a political and epistemological crisis: Western writers no longer portray non-Western peoples with unchallenged authority; the process of cultural representation is now inescapably contingent, historical, and contestable. The essays in this volume help us imagine a fully dialectical ethnography acting powerfully in the postmodern world system. They challenge all writers in the humanities and social sciences to rethink the poetics and politics of cultural invention.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethnography
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Writing culture
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Politics
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Personal name James Clifford.
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 15/12/2025 Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 0.00   305.8 CLI G6991 15/12/2025 15/12/2025 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
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