Writing Culture

James Clifford is Professor, History of Consciousness Department, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. George E. Marcus is Chancellor's Professor, Department of Anthropology, at the University of California, Irvine.

• Foreword to the Twenty-fifthAnniversary EditionPrefaceJAMES CLIFFORDIntroduction: Partial TruthsMARY LOUISE PRATTFieldwork in Common PlacesVINCENT CRAPANZANOHermes' Dilemma: The Masking ofSubversion in Ethnographic DescriptionREN ATO ROSALDOFrom the Door of His Tent:The Fieldworker and the InquisitorJAMES CLIFFORDOn Ethnographic AllegorySTEPHEN A. TYLERPost-Modern Ethnography:From Document of the Occultto Occult DocumentTALAL ASADThe Concept of Cultural Translationin British Social AnthropologyGEORGE E. MARCUSContemporary Problems of Ethnographyin the Modern World SystemMICHAEL M. J. FISCHEREthnicity and the Post-Modern Artsof MemoryPAUL RABINOWRepresentations Are Social Facts:Modernity and Post-Modernity inAnthropologyGEORGE E. MARCUSAfterword: Ethnographic Writing andAnthropological CareersBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"The ethical concerns expressed in Writing Culture are important ones."