The Predicament of Culture

Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: James Clifford ISBN: 9780674503731
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: May 18, 1988
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: James Clifford
ISBN: 9780674503731
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: May 18, 1988
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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