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