{"product_id":"rereading-cultural-anthropology-9780822312970","title":"Rereading Cultural Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCultural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e under George Marcus's editorship creatively pioneered bringing cultural studies to anthropology; \u003ci\u003eRereading Cultural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e achieves the reverse, blessing an already happy union.\"—James Peacock, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003cbr\u003e\"Placing the local in its historical and political context, while at the same time showing how migrations and media have made the world smaller, \u003ci\u003eRereading Cultural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e brings together (some of the best) work which has learned from and gone beyond the recent critiques of anthropological writing.\"—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\"Stubbornly loyal to the discipline and its continuing possibilities, this collection. . . . advances the interests of anthropology by claiming the interest of readers who are not anthropologists—all readers who have any concern with the production of trans-national knowledge.\"—Bruce Robbins, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e\"This fine collection of essays from cultural anthropology usefully surveys the issues that have animated discussions in the field for the last several years. It can be read profitably by anyone interested in cultural studies.\"—Janice A. Radway, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction vii\u003cbr\u003e On Being out of Words \/ Stephen A. Tyler 1\u003cbr\u003e Tactility and Distraction \/ Michael Taussig 8\u003cbr\u003e The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism \/ Robert J. Thornton 15\u003cbr\u003e Putting Hierarchy in Its Place \/ Arjun Appadurai 34\u003cbr\u003e Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic \/ Alcida R. Ramos 48\u003cbr\u003e Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography \/ Ted Swedenburg 69\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference \/ Geoffrey M. White 77\u003cbr\u003e The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory \/ Vincent Crapanzano 87\u003cbr\u003e A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities \/ George E. Marcus 103\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology \/ Melford E. Spiro 124\u003cbr\u003e Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru \/ Orin Starn 152\u003cbr\u003e Peru in Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's \"Inquest in the Andes\" Reexamined \/ Enrique Mayer 181\u003cbr\u003e \"Speaking with Names\": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache \/ Keith H. Basso 220\u003cbr\u003e Nostalgia- A Polemic \/ Kathleen Stewart 252\u003cbr\u003e Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture \/ David B Coplan 267\u003cbr\u003e Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture \/ John Russell 296\u003cbr\u003e Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings \/ Fred Myers 319\u003cbr\u003e Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? \/ Faye Ginsburg 356\u003cbr\u003e Tano \/ Julie Taylor 377\u003cbr\u003e Index 391","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577676304727,"sku":"9780822312970","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822312970.jpg?v=1746096128","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rereading-cultural-anthropology-9780822312970","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}