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.
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A collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature. It explores the ways in which writing culture has changed the face of ethnography over the years.
Foreword to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Preface JAMES CLIFFORD Introduction: Partial Truths MARY LOUISE PRATT Fieldwork in Common Places VINCENT CRAPANZANO Hermes' Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description REN ATO ROSALDO From the Door of His Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor JAMES CLIFFORD On Ethnographic Allegory STEPHEN A. TYLER Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document TALAL ASAD The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology GEORGE E. MARCUS Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memory PAUL RABINOW Representations Are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology GEORGE E. MARCUS Afterword: Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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“Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms, not only of methodology, but also of politics, ethics, and historical relevance. Every discipline in the human and social sciences could use such a book.”—Hayden White, author of Metahistory "A distinguished, original, and highly significant collection."—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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"The ethical concerns expressed in Writing Culture are important ones."

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780520266025
Publisert
2010-10-28
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
University of California Press
Vekt
408 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Foreword by

Biographical note

James Clifford is Professor, History of Consciousness Department, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor, Department of Anthropology, at the University of California, Irvine.