Main entry:

Clifford, James, 1945- author.

Title & Author:

The predicament of culture : twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art / James Clifford.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [1988]
©1988

Description:

xii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-370) and index.
Pt.1: Discourses -- On ethnographic authority -- Power and dialogue in ethnography : Marcel Griaule's initiation -- On ethnographic self-fashioning : Conrad and Malinowski -- Pt. 2: Displacements -- On ethnographic surrealism -- A poetics of displacement : Victor Segalen -- Tell about your trip : Michel Leiris -- A politics of neologism : Aimé Césaire -- The jardin des plantes : postcards -- Pt. 3: Collections -- Histories of the tribal and the modern -- On collecting art and culture -- Pt. 4: Histories -- On Orientalism -- Identity in Mashpee.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0674698428 (alk. paper)
0674698436 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780674698420 (alk. paper)
9780674698437 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Ethnology History 20th century.
Ethnology Philosophy.
Ethnology.
Communism and culture.
Anthropology, Cultural
Ethnography Histography 20th century.
Ethnologie.
Ethnologie Histoire 20e siècle.
Ethnologie Philosophie.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
71.50 culture: general (sociology)
08.42 philosophy of culture.
Society.
Cultuur.
Etnografie.
Culturele antropologie.
Vakbeoefening.
Ethnology in literature.
Ethnology History.
Western culture, 1900-
antropologie
anthropology
kunst
arts
vertier
entertainment
etnografie
ethnography
geschiedenis
history
literatuur
literature
filosofie
philosophy
recreatie
recreation
sport
volkscultuur
folk culture
gebruiken
customs
volkenkunde
Customs
Gewoonten

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316698
Call No.: 316698
Copy: 1
Status: Available