Routes - Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century

Zusatztext Emil Alm findet in der Beschäftigung mit sich selbst und der Begegnungmit Menschen allmählich zu einer wahren Identität. Informationen zum Autor James Clifford is Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Klappentext In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. 40 halftones. Zusammenfassung When culture makes itself at home in motion! where does an anthropologist stand? Clifford offers a new view of anthropology. It is! he says! a moving picture of a world that reveals itself en route. In this collage of essays! meditations! poems! and travel reports! Clifford takes travel and translation as openings into a complex modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: In Medias Res TRAVELS Traveling Cultures A Ghost among Melanesians Spatial Practices: Fieldwork! Travel! and the Disciplining of Anthropology CONTACTS Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections Paradise Museums as Contact Zones Palenque Log FUTURES Year of the Ram: Honolulu! February 2! 1991 Diasporas Immigrant Fort Ross Meditation Notes References Sources Acknowledgments Index

Product details

• Authors: James Clifford
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.1997
• EAN: 9780674779617
• ISBN: 978-0-674-77961-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples