Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text

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Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based "science" of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and ideological process called "text-making." This collection of essays reflects the ongoing cross-fertilization betwee

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"This book is an excellent anthology that raises troubling questions for anthropologists... All of the articles in this anthology not only focus upon canonical anthropological texts, but also situate these texts in the sweep of anthropological history... To date, Modernist Anthropology is the most sophisticated statement of 'textual anthropology.'"--American Anthropologist