The Predicament of Culture

Informationen zum Autor James Clifford is Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Klappentext 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, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. Zusammenfassung Clifford offers 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! Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions! now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: J Clifford, James Clifford
• Edition: Harvard University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 15.05.1988
• EAN: 9780674698437
• ISBN: 978-0-674-69843-7
• Pages: 398
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Cultural Studies, 20th Century, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999