01873nam a22002417a 4500 20251215131450.0 251215b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0520057295 : Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 305.8 CLI Clifford, James Marcus, George E. Writing Culture : The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. /James Clifford. California : University of California Press , 1986. ix,305p. : 24cm. 00 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. Ethnography Writing culture Politics James Clifford. RBK 66680 66680 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-12-15 Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 0.00 0 305.8 CLI G6991 2025-12-15 13:15:10 2025-12-15 RBK Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar