After writing culture : epistemology and praxis in contemporary anthropology / edited by Allison James, Jenny Hockey, and Andrew Dawson
de James, Allison
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New York : Routledge, 1997. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: ix, 273 p.; 24 cm. Summary: 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 """"writing culture"""" debates of the 1980s. Notes: Based on papers first presented to the Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference 1995, held at Hull University. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: 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 India. Representing 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? Subjects: Ethnology Philosophy; Congresses. Ethnology Methodology; Congresses. Ethnology Authorship; Congresses. Social Anthropology.
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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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- James, Allison
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- Softcover
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- 1st edition
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- ISBN 10
- 041515006X
- ISBN 13
- 9780415150064
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- New York : Routledge
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- London And New York
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- 1997
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