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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.

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"The ethical concerns expressed in Writing Culture are important ones." * American Ethnologist *
"Writing Culture is an invaluable book for anyone concerned about anthropology's future." * Oceania *

Table of 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

Writing Culture

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 28 October 2010
      ISBN-13 9780520266025
      978-0520266025
      ISBN-10 0520266021
      Also in:
      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "The ethical concerns expressed in Writing Culture are important ones." * American Ethnologist *
      "Writing Culture is an invaluable book for anyone concerned about anthropology's future." * Oceania *

      Table of 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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