Description
Book SynopsisA 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 ContentsForeword 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
