| Author | : James Clifford |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520057296 |
"Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms, not only of methodology, but also of politics, ethics, and historical relevance. Every discipline in the human and social sciences could use such a book."--Hayden White, author of Metahistory
| Author | : Ruth Behar |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520202085 |
Extrait de la couverture : ""Here, for the first time, is a book that brings women's writings out of exile to rethink anthropology's purpose at the end of the century. ... As a historical resource, the collection undertakes fresh readings of the work of well-known women anthropologists and also reclaims the writings of women of color for anthropology. As a critical account, it bravely interrogates the politics of authorship. As a creative endeavor, it embraces new Feminist voices of ethnography that challenge prevailing definitions of theory and experimental writing."
| Author | : Andrew Dawson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2003-12-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134749252 |
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 following the debates of the 1980s.
| Author | : Orin Starn |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2015-05-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822375656 |
Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the "writing culture" movement of the 1980s, consider its influences on ethnographic research and writing, and debate what counts as ethnography in a post-Writing Culture era. They address questions of ethnographic method, new forms the presentation of research might take, and the anthropologist's role. Exploring themes such as late industrialism, precarity, violence, science and technology, globalization, and the non-human world, this book is essential reading for those looking to understand the current state of anthropology and its possibilities going forward. Contributors. Anne Allison, James Clifford, Michael M.J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Richard Handler, John L. Jackson, Jr., George E. Marcus, Charles Piot, Hugh Raffles, Danilyn Rutherford, Orin Starn, Kathleen Stewart, Michael Taussig, Kamala Visweswaran
| Author | : Gary A. Olson |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1995-09-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438415060 |
Women Writing Culture is a collection of six interviews with internationally prominent scholars about feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism. Those interviewed include feminist philosopher of science Sandra Harding; cultural critic and philosopher of science Donna Haraway; noted American theorist of women's epistemology Mary Belenky; African-American cultural critic bell hooks; Luce Irigaray, a major exponent of "French Feminism"; and Jean-Francois Lyotard, a philosopher and cultural critic who has helped to define "the postmodern condition." Together, these interviews afford significant insight into these eminent scholars' perspectives on women, writing, and culture, and explore how women write culture through the various postmodern discourses in which they engage.
| Author | : Olaf Zenker |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010-05-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1845458176 |
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 ethnographic Other’, but with representation in general.
| Author | : Martyn Lyons |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107018897 |
A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.
| Author | : Gish Jen |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2013-03-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0674072839 |
In three pieces originally delivered as special lectures, draws on the biography of the author's father as well as the evolution of her own work to contrast Western and Eastern ideas of self-narration and interdependency.
| Author | : Richard H. Brodhead |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780226075266 |
Richard H. Brodhead uses a great variety of historical sources, many of them considered here for the first time, to reconstruct the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of the post-Civil War decades, and the literary culture of post-emancipation black education. Moving across a range of writers familiar and unfamiliar, and relating groups of writers often considered in artificial isolation, Brodhead describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for the authors who inhabited them.
