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The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford.

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ISBN 0674698428
9780674698420
0674698436
9780674698437
Author Clifford, James, 1945- (author)
Title The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988.
Description xii, 381 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-370) and index.
Contents The pure products go crazy -- On ethnographic authority -- Power and dialogue in ethnography: Marcel Griaule's initiation -- On ethnographic self-fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski -- On ethnographic surrealism -- A poetics of displacement: Victor Segalen -- Tell about your trip: Michel Leiris -- A politics of neologism: Aimé Césaire -- The jardin des plantes: postcards -- Histories of the tribal and the modern -- On collecting art and culture -- On Orientalism -- Identity in Mashpee.
Subjects Indigenous art -- Collectors and collecting
Material culture -- Collectors and collecting
Society
Ethnology
Communism and culture
Ethnology -- History
Ethnology -- Philosophy
Call number 2022.044
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