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100			_aClifford, James
245			_aPredicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art
260			_bHarvard University Press, _c1998 _aCambridge :
300			_axii, 381 p.; _bill.,(b & w), _c23 cm
365			_b40.00 _cUSD _d85.60
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_ahe Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in post-colonial contexts. His critique raises questions of global significance: Who has the authority to speak for any group’s identity and authenticity? What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture? How do self and “the other” clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations? In chapters devoted to the history of anthropology, Clifford discusses the work of Malinowski, Mead, Griaule, Lévi-Strauss, Turner, Geertz, and other influential scholars. He also explores the affinity of ethnography with avant-garde art and writing, recovering a subversive, self-reflexive cultural criticism. The surrealists’ encounters with Paris or New York, the work of Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris in the Collège de Sociologie, and the hybrid constructions of recent tribal artists offer provocative ethnographic examples that challenge familiar notions of difference and identity. In an emerging global modernity, the exotic is unexpectedly nearby, the familiar strangely distanced.
650			_aEthnology
650			_aAfricanism
650			_aAnthropology
650			_a Campisi,Jack
650			_aColonialism
650			_aDogon
650			_aField notes
650			_aGriaule school
650			_aHumanism
650			_aLevi-Strauss
650			_aMashpee Wampanoag Indians
650			_aMuseum of Modern Art
650			_aNative American Rights Fund
650			_aNegritude
650			_aOrientalism
650			_a Segalen,Vector
650			_aSurrealism
650			_aWampanoag Nation
650			_aTribe
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