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028			_a: Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar
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100			_aClifford, James
100			_a Marcus, George E.
245			_aWriting Culture _b: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. _c/James Clifford.
260			_aCalifornia _b: University of California Press _c , 1986.
300			_aix,305p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aIn 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			_aEthnography
650			_aWriting culture
650			_aPolitics
700			_aJames Clifford.
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