The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

The 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, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be conting...

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Main Author: Clifford, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2021]
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Summary:The 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, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. In discussions of ethnography, surrealism, museums, and emergent tribal arts, Clifford probes the late twentieth-century predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after culture
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (395 Seiten)
ISBN:9780674503724

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