Beyond writing culture
Subtitle: current intersections of epistemologies and representational practices
By: [edited by] Olaf Zenker and Karsten Kumoll
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781845456757
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Opening doors beyond writing culture / Olaf Zenker, Karsten Kumoll; title: Textualization, mystification and the power of the frame / Vincent Crapanzano; title: Reading James Clifford: on ethnographic allegory / Steffen Strohmenger; title: Indigenous research and the politics of representation: notes on the cultural theory of Marshall Sahlins / Karsten Kumoll; title: From the spirit's point of view: ethnography, total truth and speakership / Thomas G. Kirsch; title: Interlogue: 'writing cultures' and the quest for knowledge / Rozita Dimova; title: Language matters: reflexive notes on representing the Irish language revival in Catholic West Belfast / Olaf Zenker; title: Ethnographic cognition and writing culture / Christophe Heintz; title: Hard truths: addressing a crisis in ethnography / Stephen P. Reyna; title: The migration of the 'culture' concept from anthropology to sociology at the fin de siècle / John H. Zammito; title: Epilogue: how do paradigm shifts work in anthropology? On the relationship of theory and experience / Gunther Schlee.