: the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar Clifford, James creator ; Marcus, George E. creator James Clifford. text Berkeley, Calif : University of California Press , [2010], ©1986 monographic eng

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xxv, 305 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm. 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 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 / George E Marcus Ethnography Methodology Society Ethnology Methodology 306 CLI 9780520266025 : International Book Distributors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. 230131 20230221125348.0