Author: James Clifford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520057296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"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
Writing Culture
Author: James Clifford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520057296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"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
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520057296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"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
Writing Culture
Author: James Clifford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520946286
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and post-modernity. Since its publication in 1986, Writing Culture has been a source of generative controversy and innovation in anthropology. It continues to inspire scholars and activists across the humanities, social sciences, and arts who are concerned with experimentation and ethics in cultural analysis. This anniversary edition is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, exploring the legacies of Writing Culture in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520946286
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and post-modernity. Since its publication in 1986, Writing Culture has been a source of generative controversy and innovation in anthropology. It continues to inspire scholars and activists across the humanities, social sciences, and arts who are concerned with experimentation and ethics in cultural analysis. This anniversary edition is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, exploring the legacies of Writing Culture in the twenty-first century.
Women Writing Culture
Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520202085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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."
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520202085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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."
Women Writing Culture
Author: Gary A. Olson
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791429631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791429631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This collection of six interviews with internationally known scholars explores feminism, rhetoric, writing, and multiculturalism.
Writing Culture
Author: James Clifford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266021
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266021
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.
Beyond Writing Culture
Author: Karsten Kumoll
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845456757
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845456757
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
After Writing Culture
Author: Andrew Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134749252
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134749252
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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
Re-writing Culture in Taiwan
Author: Fang-Long Shih
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134036221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and coming scholars working in the field of East Asian studies offer a re-reading and re-writing of culture in Taiwan. They show that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan is a multidisciplinary book with its own distinctive collective voice which will appeal to anyone interested in Taiwan. With chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, the breadth of ground covered is truly comprehensive.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134036221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and coming scholars working in the field of East Asian studies offer a re-reading and re-writing of culture in Taiwan. They show that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan is a multidisciplinary book with its own distinctive collective voice which will appeal to anyone interested in Taiwan. With chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, the breadth of ground covered is truly comprehensive.
The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860-1920
Author: Martyn Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.
The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān
Author: Fokelien Kootstra
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004512632
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004512632
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.