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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography 2nd edition


Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography 2nd edition

Paperback by Clifford, James; Marcus, George E.; Fortun, Mike; Fortun, Kim

Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

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ISBN:
9780520266025
Publication Date:
28 Oct 2010
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
University of California Press
Pages:
336 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 20 - 21 May 2024
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

Description

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.

Contents

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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