Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication.
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This classic work by Marcus and Fischer is still important to an understanding of changing global and local conditions in postmodernity and how we, as ethnographers, might proceed. This text was very helpful in the researching and writing of my ethnography (now a book: Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000). I needed help in conceptualizing hybrid cultural forms and found it in Marcus's and Fisher's text. I also found the text useful for helping me think through the popular cultural critique that needed to be articulated from the everyday discourses of my participants. If you are interested in critical ethnography, this is a must read. Anthropologists, Sociologists, and folks in Cultural Studies and Communications will want to have this text in their reference libraries.
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The present is a time of reassessment of dominant ideas across the human sciences (a designation broader than and inclusive of the conventional social sciences), extending to law, art, architecture, philosophy, literature, and even the natural sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnographic research process, other cultural experience, experimental ethnographies, ethnographic subjects, historical political economy, interpretive anthropology, ethnographic writing, epistemological critique, experimental ethnography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Frankfurt School, Clifford Geertz, World War, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, New Guinea, Victor Turner, Marcel Mauss, Raymond Williams, Repatriation of Anthropology, Coming of Age, Conveying Other Cultural Experience, June Nash, Talcott Parsons, The Nuer, Walter Benjamin, World Historical Political Economy, Critical Legal Studies, Eric Wolf, Vincent Crapanzano's Tuhami New!
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The present is a time of reassessment of dominant ideas across the human sciences (a designation broader than and inclusive of the conventional social sciences), extending to law, art, architecture, philosophy, literature, and even the natural sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnographic research process, other cultural experience, experimental ethnographies, ethnographic subjects, historical political economy, interpretive anthropology, ethnographic writing, epistemological critique, experimental ethnography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Frankfurt School, Clifford Geertz, World War, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, New Guinea, Victor Turner, Marcel Mauss, Raymond Williams, Repatriation of Anthropology, Coming of Age, Conveying Other Cultural Experience, June Nash, Talcott Parsons, The Nuer, Walter Benjamin, World Historical Political Economy, Critical Legal Studies, Eric Wolf, Vincent Crapanzano's Tuhami New!
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