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5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding anthropological essays,
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This review is from: The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Paperback)
James Clifford's book considers how anthropology can exist in these postmodern times. Considering such phenomena as a museum exhibit which displays "primitive artefacts" next to contemporaneous "modern art pieces," Clifford discusses the way "Western" culture privileges its own culture at the expense of other cultures, clearly showing the ways assumptions of the definition of culture defines this privilege. Clifford's essay on the Mashpees on Cape Cod offers a striking example of directions in which anthropology can move to redesign its own project without privileging itself. A well-written, erudite text. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the workings of contemporary society.
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art by James Clifford (Paperback - May 18, 1988)
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