Clifford, James, and George Marcus /
James Clifford and George Marcus's (1986)Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography is a highly influential book that marks a key moment in the development of reflexive, literary, and postmodern approaches to ethnographic methods. The 10 essays that comprise this widely cited coll...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Ethnographic representation.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | James Clifford and George Marcus's (1986)Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography is a highly influential book that marks a key moment in the development of reflexive, literary, and postmodern approaches to ethnographic methods. The 10 essays that comprise this widely cited collection argue that, far from a straightforward process of "writing up" data from fieldwork, ethnography involves a poetics and a politicsa set of literary techniques, idiomatic conventions, and practices of authorship that are deeply involved in the reproduction, struggle over, and transformation of relations of power and knowledge. Writing Culture generated a wide-ranging debate over the nature, purpose, and implications of ethnographic inquiry, situating itself as a key text in the "reflexive turn" in the social sciences and, specifically, in methodological questions ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746716 152974671X 9781526421036 1526421038 |