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_bC.J.W
100 1 _aClifford, James
_93172
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aWriting culture :
_bthe poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar /
_cedited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus.
264 1 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c[1986]
264 4 _a©1986.
300 _aix, 305 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
500 _a"Experiments in contemporary anthropology."--Jacket.
500 _aRevised versions of the papers presented at a seminar held in Santa Fe, N.M., April 1984.
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aBibliography: p. [267]-294.
505 0 _aPreface1. 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
520 _aPlaces 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.
650 0 _aEthnology
_xAuthorship
_xCongresses.
650 0 _aEthnology
_xMethodology
_xCongresses.
700 1 _aMarcus, George E.
_eauthor
710 2 _aSchool of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
740 0 _aExperiments in contemporary anthropology.
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