Beyond ‹i›Writing Culture‹/i› : : Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices / / ed. by Olaf Zenker, Karsten Kumoll.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Crapanzano, Vincent,; Dimova, Rozita,; Heintz, Christophe,; Kirsch, Thomas G.,; Kumoll, Karsten,; Reyna, Stephen P.,; Schlee, Günther,; Strohmenger, Steffen,; Zammito, John H.,; Zenker, Olaf,
• HerausgeberIn: Kumoll, Karsten,; Zenker, Olaf,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus’ volume Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed. At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by embracing the more fundamental challenge a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Prologue: Opening Doors Beyond Writing Culture
• 2. Textualization, Mystification and the Power of the Frame
• 3. Reading James Clifford: On Ethnographic Allegory
• 4. Indigenous Research and the Politics of Representation: Notes on the Cultural Theory of Marshall Sahlins
• 5. From the Spirit’s Point of View: Ethnography, Total Truth and Speakership
• 6. Interlogue: ‘Writing Cultures’ and the Quest for Knowledge
• 7. Language Matters: Reflexive Notes on Representing the Irish Language Revival in Catholic West Belfast
• 8. Ethnographic Cognition and Writing Culture
• 9. Hard Truths: Addressing a Crisis in Ethnography
• 10. The Migration of the ‘Culture’ Concept from Anthropology to Sociology at the Fin de siècle
• 11. Epilogue: How Do Paradigm Shifts Work in Anthropology? On the Relationship of Theory and Experience
• Notes on Contributors
• Index