This is the updated text of George Marcus's 1980 critique of cultural anthropology, "Writing Culture". It contains a series of essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology, examining in particular how the discipline's central practice of ethnography has been changed by "multi-sited" approaches to anthropology. The author rejects the view that these changes undermine anthropology, and argues that the combination of traditional ethnography with scholarly experimentation will only make the discipline more ...
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This is the updated text of George Marcus's 1980 critique of cultural anthropology, "Writing Culture". It contains a series of essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology, examining in particular how the discipline's central practice of ethnography has been changed by "multi-sited" approaches to anthropology. The author rejects the view that these changes undermine anthropology, and argues that the combination of traditional ethnography with scholarly experimentation will only make the discipline more diverse. The book explores how ethnographic traditons of defining fieldwork in terms of people and place is now being changed, it illustrates the emerging multi-sited condition of research, and examines the evolving professional culture of anthropology and the predicaments of its scholars. It also considers the impact of demographic changes within the discipline and raises issues about the identity of anthropologists in relation to those they study.
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