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

• Autore: Zenker Olaf
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.01
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Authorship; Ethnology - Methodology
• Altri autori: KumollKarsten
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond writing culture
• ISBN: 1-78238-334-4; 1-282-66237-6; 9786612662379; 1-84545-817-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781020103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II