Table of Contents

Preface
1. Partial Truths, by James Clifford
2. Fieldwork in Common Places, by Mary Louise Pratt
3. Hermes' Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description, by Vincent Crapanzano
4. From the Door of His Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor, by Renato Rosaldo
5. On Ethnographic Allegory, by James Clifford
6. Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document, by Stephen A. Tyler
7. The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology, by Talal Asad
8. Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System, by George E. Marcus
9. Ethnicity an the Post-Modern Arts of Memory, by Michael M. J. Fischer
10. Representations Are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology, by Paul Rabinow
Afterword: Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers, by George E. Marcus
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Reviews

"The nine critical essays collected here result from an advanced seminar held in 1984 at The School for American Research in Santa Fe, N.M. . . . The questions raised by these essays examine the parameters and consequences of anthropological (and other) writing to an extent that goes beyond any previous collection. The book is highly recommended to professionals in ethnographic field work and to anyone interested in presenting 'other' cultural contexts."--"Science Books and Films