Introduction vii On Being out of Words / Stephen A. Tyler 1 Tactility and Distraction / Michael Taussig 8 The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism / Robert J. Thornton 15 Putting Hierarchy in Its Place / Arjun Appadurai 34 Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic / Alcida R. Ramos 48 Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography / Ted Swedenburg 69 The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference / Geoffrey M. White 77 The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory / Vincent Crapanzano 87 A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities / George E. Marcus 103 Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology / Melford E. Spiro 124 Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru / Orin Starn 152 Peru in Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined / Enrique Mayer 181 "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache / Keith H. Basso 220 Nostalgia- A Polemic / Kathleen Stewart 252 Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture / David B Coplan 267 Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture / John Russell 296 Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings / Fred Myers 319 Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? / Faye Ginsburg 356 Tano / Julie Taylor 377 Index 391

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