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- ISBN
- 9780674698437
- Book Title
- Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Art, Social Science
- Topic
- Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 398 Pages
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The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions of global significance: Who has the authority to speak for any group's identity and authenticity? What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture? How do self and "the other" clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations? In chapters devoted to the history of anthropology, Clifford discusses the work of Malinowski, Mead, Griaule, L vi-Strauss, Turner, Geertz, and other influential scholars. He also explores the affinity of ethnography with avant-garde art and writing, recovering a subversive, self-reflexive cultural criticism. The surrealists' encounters with Paris or New York, the work of Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris in the Coll ge de Sociologie, and the hybrid constructions of recent tribal artists offer provocative ethnographic examples that challenge familiar notions of difference and identity. In an emerging global modernity, the exotic is unexpectedly nearby, the familiar strangely distanced.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674698436
ISBN-13
9780674698437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1029838
Product Key Features
Book Title
Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History / General
Publication Year
1988
Genre
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
398 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gn308.C55 1988
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The Predicament of Culture is a work of sustained brilliance, packed with simply wonderful gifts for the reader. The several chapters on French anthropology and ethnographic surrealism are fascinating, and somehow as urgent as the ones on collecting or on the relentless intertranslating of cultural demands, or as the theme that we must rethink this entire dimension of human existence. It is also an extremely wise book. Since wisdom and brilliance rarely go together, it is plain that James Clifford is himself one of our cultural treasures., Clifford is original and very nearly unique. He is one of the few persons who connects history, literature, and anthropology. He's had an enormous impact because he provides a new perspective on the study of culture that would almost certainly never have been generated from within anthropology itself., Clifford's reflections are salutory. They are not self-serving, allowing Clifford entry by a backdoor into a community which often threatens the exclusivity of a private club. By breaking with narrow professional definitions of anthropology, Clifford broadens its vision. Anthropology again becomes the exploration of the grounds of humanity in its original, general, and philosophically fundamental sense., With an intellectual modesty that belies his sweeping global perspective, Clifford focuses on who has the authority to speak for any group's identity and authenticity. As he traces the development of twentieth-century anthropology, Clifford locates affinities between anthropology and avant-garde art, making this book one of the most readable introductions to contemporary cultural criticism.
Table of Content
Introduction: The Pure Products Go Crazy Part One: Discourses 1. On Ethnographic Authority 2. Power and Dialogue in Ethnography: Marcel Griaule's Initiation 3. On Ethnographic Self-Fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski Part Two: Displacements 4. On Ethnographic Surrealism 5. A Poetics of Displacement: Victor Segalen 6. Tell about Your Trip: Michel Leiris 7. A Politics of Neologism: Aimeacute; Ceacute;saire 8. The Jardin des Plantes: Postcards Part Three: Collections 9. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern 10. On Collecting Art and Culture Part Four: Histories 11. On Orientalism 12. Identity in Mashpee References Sources Index
Copyright Date
1988
Lccn
87-024173
Dewey Decimal
306/.09
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
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Yes
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