George E. Marcus & James Clifford 
Writing Culture [EPUB ebook] 
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and post-modernity. Since its publication in 1986, Writing Culture has been a source of generative controversy and innovation in anthropology. It continues to inspire scholars and activists across the humanities, social sciences, and arts who are concerned with experimentation and ethics in cultural analysis. This anniversary edition is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, exploring the legacies of Writing Culture in the twenty-first century.



These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of

Table des matières

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

A propos de l’auteur

James Clifford is Professor, History of Consciousness Department, at the University of California, Santa Cruz.George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor, Department of Anthropology, at the University of California, Irvine.