The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780674698437 (0674698436)
Publish date: May 18th 1988
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pages no: 398
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Art,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Anthropology,
Cultural Studies,
Social Science,
Theory,
Art History
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