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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Clifford, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674503724; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674503724?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James Clifford.

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.