Writing culture the poetics and politics of ethnography : a School of American Research advanced seminar - Clifford, James 1945-; Marcus, George E.; School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.). (Berkeley, California University of California Press, 1986)
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
"Experiments in contemporary anthropology."--Jacket.
Revised versions of the papers presented at a seminar held in Santa Fe, N.M., April 1984.
Includes bibliographical references ([267]-294) and index.
Keywords: Ethnology -- Authorship -- Congresses; Ethnology -- Methodology -- Congresses