LEADER 04467nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910464118103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89771-7 010 $a0-8122-0457-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204575 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064700 035 $a(EBL)3441763 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405924 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582501 035 $a(PQKB)10590150 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441763 035 $a(OCoLC)794700622 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8280 035 $a(DE-B1597)449356 035 $a(OCoLC)979753973 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641598 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421021 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064700 100 $a20101111d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe paradox of relevance$b[electronic resource] $eethnography and citizenship in the United States /$fCarol J. Greenhouse 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4312-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-306) and index. 327 $aRelevance in question -- Templates of relevance -- Texts and contexts -- Textual strategy and the politics of form -- The discourse of solutions -- Democracy in the first person -- Gendering difference and the impulse to fiction -- Markets for citizenship. 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Between 1990 and 1996, the U.S. Congress passed market-based reforms in the areas of civil rights, welfare, and immigration in a series of major legislative initiatives. These were announced as curbs on excessive rights and as correctives to a culture of dependency among the urban poor-stock images of racial and cultural minorities that circulated well beyond Congress. But those images did not circulate unchallenged, even after congressional opposition failed. In The Paradox of Relevance, Carol J. Greenhouse provides a political and literary history of the anthropology of U.S. cities in the 1990's, where-below the radar-New Deal liberalism, with its iconic bond between society and security, continued to thrive.The Paradox of Relevance opens in the midst of anthropology's so-called postmodern crisis and the appeal to relevance as a basis for reconciliation and renewal. The search for relevance leads outward to the major federal legislation of the 1990's and the galvanic political tensions between rights- and market-based reforms. Anthropologists' efforts to inform those debates through "relevant" ethnography were highly patterned, revealing the imprint of political tensions in shaping their works' central questions and themes, as well as their organization, narrative techniques, and descriptive practices. In that sense, federal discourse dominates the works' demonstrations of ethnography's relevance; however, the authors simultaneously resist that dominance through innovations in their own literariness-in particular, drawing on diasporic fiction and sociolegal studies where these articulate more agentive meanings of identity and difference. The paradox of relevance emerges with the realization that in the context of the times, affirming the relevance of ethnography as value-neutral science required the textual practices of advocacy and art. 606 $aAnthropology$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEthnology$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial structure$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States$xPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAnthropology$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aEthnology$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSocial structure$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aCitizenship$xPhilosophy. 676 $a323.60973 700 $aGreenhouse$b Carol J.$f1950-$01040165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464118103321 996 $aThe paradox of relevance$92466623 997 $aUNINA