Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar / edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986. Description: ix, 305 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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Summary: Places ethnography at the center of a fresh intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, discourse theory, and textual criticism. This work analyzes 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.
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"Experiments in contemporary anthropology."--Jacket.
Revised versions of the papers presented at a seminar held in Santa Fe, N.M., April 1984.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [267]-294.
Preface1. Partial Truths, by James Clifford2. Fieldwork in Common Places, by Mary Louise Pratt3. Hermes' Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description, by Vincent Crapanzano4. From the Door of His Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor, by Renato Rosaldo5. On Ethnographic Allegory, by James Clifford6. Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document, by Stephen A. Tyler7. The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology, by Talal Asad8. Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System, by George E. Marcus9. Ethnicity an the Post-Modern Arts of Memory, by Michael M. J. Fischer10. Representations Are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology, by Paul RabinowAfterword: Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers, by George E. MarcusBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
Places ethnography at the center of a fresh intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, discourse theory, and textual criticism. This work analyzes 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.
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