About this title: In these new essays, a group of experienced ethnographers, a literary critic, and a historian of anthropology, all known for advanced analytic work on ethnographic writing, place ethnography at the center of a new intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. The authors analyze classic examples of cultural description, from Goethe and Catlin to Malinowski, Evans-Pritchard, and Le Roy Ladurie, showing the persistence of allegorial patterns and rhetorical tropes. They assess recent experimental trends and explore the ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780520057296ISBN:0520057295
Description: Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Illustrated wraps, ix, 305 pages, Index, Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, black-and-white frontis; contributors include James Clifford, Mary Louise Pratt, Vincent Crapanzano, Renato Rosaldo, Steven A. Tyler, Talal Asad, George E. Marcus, Michael M. J. Fischer, Paul Rabinow. Subtitle on cover: Experiments in Contemporary Anthropology, A School of American Research Advanced Seminar. Wraps lightly soiled, top corner of front cover and top corner of ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780520057296ISBN:0520057295
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Binding: Softcover.
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 1986
Description: VG. Writing Culture argues that ethnography is in the midst of a political and epistemological crisis: Western writers no longer portay non-Western peoples with unchallenged authority; the process of cultural representation is now inescapably contingent, historical, and contestable. A valuable work. Glossy white wraps with sepia-tone illustration and black and white lettering; 305 pp. with no illustrations. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780520057296ISBN:0520057295
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"I read this book ten years ago (it was a little old even then), and I'm reading it again now. It is still totally applicable to a variety of disciplines that represent Others--and I'm concerned here specifically with Buddhist studies, which seems to have ignored the political issues of representation. What allegories do we enact, what fears do we project, what nostalgia do we inscribe, as we lay claim to the authoritative version of Buddhist histories? But I blather. This book rocks, and it's still ahead of its time: 22 years later!"
"As much as I loved this book and have relied on it during my schooling, I think I can now say I am done with the intellectual hand wringing done within the discipline of Anthropology. Ethnography is a tough undertaking, we will necessarily do a violence to our subjects, but we aren't on the veranda anymore. If we engage our subjects as equals, if we don't writed in that staid, tired way then the discourse in our field grows and moves us forward - to learning a bit more about those we study with and amongst."
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