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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1988
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (395 p.)
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Table of 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