Writing Culture

Zusatztext " Writing Culture is an invaluable book for anyone concerned about anthropology's future." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

"Writing Culture is an invaluable book for anyone concerned about anthropology's future."

Auteur
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.

Texte du rabat
“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

Résumé

These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and post-modernity. Since its publication in 1986, Writing Culture has been a source of generative controversy and innovation in anthropology. It continues to inspire scholars and activists across the humanities, social sciences, and arts who are concerned with experimentation and ethics in cultural analysis.

This anniversary edition is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, exploring the legacies of Writing Culture in the twenty-first century. 

Contenu
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