The Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art / James Clifford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clifford, James, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--History--20th century.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Introduction: The Pure Products Go Crazy

Part One: Discourses

Part Two: Displacements

Part Three: Collections

Part Four: Histories

References

Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780674503724

0674503724

9780674503731

0674503732

OCLC:

1248758955