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Writing culture : the poetics and politics of ethnography / edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus.

Format Book and Print
Edition25th anniversary ed. / with a foreword by Kim Fortun.
Publication InfoBerkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2010], ©1986.
Descriptionxxv, 305 pages : 1 illustration ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorClifford, James, 1945-
Other author/creatorMarcus, George E.
Other author/creatorFortun, Kim.
Other author/creatorSchool of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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 / Paul Rabinow -- Afterword : ethnographic writing and anthropological careers / George E. Marcus.
General noteOriginally published: c1986. With new foreword.
General notePublication date from publisher's website.
General note"A School of American Research advanced seminar."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-294) and index.
ISBN9780520266025 (pbk.)
ISBN0520266021 (pbk.)

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