Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

James Clifford
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This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which "Writing Culture" has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.
Genres: AnthropologyNonfictionEthnographyTheoryCultural StudiesAcademicSociologyCulturalWritingHistory
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