After writing culture : epistemology and praxis in contemporary anthropology / / edited by Allison James, Jenny Hockey, and Andrew Dawson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825903903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
• ISBN: 1-134-74924-4; 1-134-74925-2; 0-203-45963-6; 1-280-06768-3; 0-203-45098-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Collana: A.S.A. monographs ; ; 34
• Altri autori (Persone): JamesAllison; HockeyJennifer Lorna; DawsonAndrew H
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Ethnology - Philosophy; Ethnology - Methodology; Ethnology - Authorship
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on papers first presented to the Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference 1995, held at Hull University.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: the road from Santa Fe; Representing the anthropologist's predicament; Identifying versus identifying with 'the Other': reflections on the siting of the subject in anthropological discourse; Representations and the re-presentation of family: an analysis of divorce narratives; The tooth butterfly, or rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present; Crossing a representational divide: from west to east in Scottish ethnography; Deconstructing colonial fictions? Some conjuring tricks in the recent sociology of IndiaRepresenting and translating people's place in the landscape of northern Australia; Echoing the past in rural Japan; The Museum as mirror: ethnographic reflections; Edifying anthropology: culture as conversation; representation as conversation; Who is ; representing whom? Gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan; Representing identity; Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity: the place of the intellectual; Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of 'Capability' Brown: representations of what, by whom, and to what end?Name index; Subject index
• Sommario/riassunto: With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving followi ng the ""writing culture"" debates of the 1980s.