The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
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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: Aime Cesaire 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
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- Authors
- Clifford, J.
- Corresponding author
- Clifford, James
- ORCID
- Clifford, James
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- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 1988-05-18
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- W2072063440
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- FWCI
- 260.73
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Cultural Studies and Colonialism
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › European Linguistics and Anthropology
- Keywords
- ethnographic authority, Marcel Griaule, Joseph Conrad, Bronislaw Malinowski, Victor Segalen, Michel Leiris, Aimé Césaire, Orientalism, tribalism, Mashpee, postcards, ethnographic discourse, neologisms
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