Rereading cultural anthropology / edited by George E. Marcus.

Other author Marcus, George E.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 1992.
Descriptionxiv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents On being out of words / Stephen A. Tyler -- Tactility and distraction / Michael Taussig -- The rhetoric of ethnographic holism / Robert J. Thornton -- Putting hierarchy in its place / Arjun Appadurai -- Reflecting on the Yanomami: ethnographic images and the pursuit of the exotic / Alcida R. Ramos -- Occupational hazards: Palestine ethnography / Ted Swedenburg -- The politics of remembering: notes on a Pacific conference / Geoffrey M. White -- The postmodern crisis: discourse, parody, memory / Vincent Crapanzano -- A broad(er)side to the canon, being a partial account of a year of travel among textual communities in the realm of humanities centers, and including a collection of artificial curiosities / George E. Marcus -- Cultural relativism and the future of anthropology / Melford E. Spiro.
Contents Missing the revolution: anthropologists and the war in Peru / Orin Starn -- Peru in deep trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" reexamined / Enrique Mayer -- "Speaking with names": language and landscape among the western Apache / Keith H. Basso -- Nostalgia--a polemic / Kathleen Stewart -- Fictions that save: migrants' performance and Basotho national culture / David B. Coplan -- Race and reflexivity: the black other in contemporary Japanese mass culture / John Russell -- Representing culture: the production of discourse(s) for Aboriginal acrylic paintings / Fred Myers -- Indigenous media: Faustian contract or global village? / Faye Ginsburg -- Tango / Julie Taylor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92021908
ISBN0822312794 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0822312972 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN357 .R47 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold