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n these new essays, a group of experienced ethnographers, a literary critic, and a historian of anthropology, all known for advanced analytic work on ethnographic writing, place ethnography at the center of a new intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. The authors analyze 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. They assess recent experimental trends and explore the functions of orality, ethnicity, and power in ethnographic composition. Writing Cultureargues that ethnography is in the midst of a political and epistemological crisis: Western writers no longer portray non-Western peoples with unchallenged authority; the process of cultural representation is now inescapably contingent, historical, and contestable. The essays in this volume help us imagine a fully dialectical ethnography acting powerfully in the postmodern world system. They challenge all writers in the humanities and social sciences to rethink the poetics and politics of cultural invention.

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University of California Press
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0520057295
ISBN-13
9780520057296
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Book Title
Writing Culture
Author
George E. Marcus
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
1986
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
345 Pages

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9in
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0.8in
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6in
Item Weight
2.4 Oz

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Gn307.7.W75 1986
Table of Content
Preface 1. Partial Truths, by James Clifford 2. Fieldwork in Common Places, by Mary Louise Pratt 3. Hermes' Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description, by Vincent Crapanzano 4. From the Door of His Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor, by Renato Rosaldo 5. On Ethnographic Allegory, by James Clifford 6. Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document, by Stephen A. Tyler 7. The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology, by Talal Asad 8. Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System, by George E. Marcus 9. Ethnicity an the Post-Modern Arts of Memory, by Michael M. J. Fischer 10. Representations Are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology, by Paul Rabinow Afterword: Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers, by George E. Marcus Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Copyright Date
1986
Lccn
85-014860

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