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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811315803321

Autore

Zenker Olaf

Titolo

Beyond writing culture : current intersections of epistemologies and representational practices / / Olaf Zenker and Karsten Kumoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2010

ISBN

1-78238-334-4

1-282-66237-6

9786612662379

1-84545-817-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KumollKarsten

Disciplina

306.01

Soggetti

Ethnology - Authorship

Ethnology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Copyright Page; Table of Physics; Preface; Acknowledgement; Chapter 1: Prologue: Opening Doors Beyond Writing Culture; Chapter 2: Testualization, Mystification and the Power of the Frame; Chapter 3: Reading James Clifford: On Ethnographic Allegory; Chapter 4: Indigenous Research and the Politics of Representation; Chapter 5: From the Spirit's Point of View; Chapter 6: Interlogue; Chapter 7: Language Matters; Chapter 8: Ethnographic Cognition and Writing Culture; Chapter 9: Hard Truths; Chapter 10: The Migration of the 'Culture' Concept; Chapter 11: Epilogue; Notes on Contributors

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus' volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise the intricate relationship between epistemology and representational practices rather than maintaining the original narrow focus on textual analysis. It thus offers a thought-provoking tapestry of new ideas relevant for scholars not only concerned with 'the