xxv, 305 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
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 -- Afterword: Ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / George E. Marcus
Summary
This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which 'Writing Culture' has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years
Notes
Previous ed.: 1986
"A School of American Research Advanced Seminar" - t.p
"Seminar held in Santa Fe, N.M., April 1984" - t.p. verso
