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



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Titolo: After writing culture : epistemology and praxis in contemporary anthropology / / edited by Allison James, Jenny Hockey, and Andrew Dawson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 1997
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
Disciplina: 306
Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Philosophy
Ethnology - Methodology
Ethnology - Authorship
Altri autori: DawsonAndrew <1962->  
HockeyJennifer Lorna  
DawsonAndrew H  
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.
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ISBN: 1-134-74924-4
1-134-74925-2
0-203-45963-6
1-280-06768-3
0-203-45098-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825903903321
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Serie: A.S.A. monographs ; ; 34.