Anthropology's wake : attending to the end of culture /
Author / Creator: | Michaelsen, Scott (Scott J.) |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. |
Description: | xi, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7248992 |
Summary: | Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies or metaphors of anthropology in the past two decades (embodied in works by Edward Said, James Clifford, George Marcus, V. Y. Mudimbe, and others) and argues that they do not manage to escape anthropology's grounding in representational practices. To the extent that it remains a practice of representation, anthropology, however complex, critical, or self-reflexive, cannot avoid objectifying its others. |
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Physical Description: | xi, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-263) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780823228775 0823228770 9780823228782 0823228789 |