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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TextSeries: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Berkeley University of California Press 1986.Description: ix, 305 pages 23 cmISBN:

0520056523

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305.801 CLI

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Introduction : partial truths / James Clifford Fieldwork in common places / Mary Louise Pratt Hermes' dilemma : the masking of subversion in ethnographic description / Vincent Crapanzano From the door of his tent : the fieldworker and the inquisitor / Renato Rosaldo On ethnographic allegory / James Clifford Post-modern ethnography : from document of the occult to occult document / Stephen A. Tyler The concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology / Talal Asad Contemporary problems of ethnography in the modern world system / George E. Marcus Ethnicity and the post-modern arts of memory / Michael M.J. Fischer Representations are social facts : modernity and post-modernity in anthropology / Paul Rabinow Afterword : ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / George E. Marcus. From the door of his tent : the fieldworker and the inquisitor / Renato Rosaldo On ethnographic allegory / James Clifford Post-modern ethnography : from document of the occult to occult document / Stephen A. Tyler The concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology / Talal Asad Contemporary problems of ethnography in the modern world system / George E. Marcus Ethnicity and the post-modern arts of memory / Michael M.J. Fischer Representations are social facts : modernity and post-modernity in anthropology / Paul Rabinow Afterword : ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / George E. Marcus. The concept of cultural translation in British social anthropology / Talal Asad Contemporary problems of ethnography in the modern world system / George E. Marcus Ethnicity and the post-modern arts of memory / Michael M.J. Fischer Representations are social facts : modernity and post-modernity in anthropology / Paul Rabinow Afterword : ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / George E. Marcus.

Summary: "In 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 Culture' argues 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." -- Publisher's website.

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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.

Bibliography: pages [267]-294.

"In 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 Culture' argues 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." -- Publisher's website.

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Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography: A School of American Research Advanced Seminar edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus.