The Predicament of Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0674503732
- ISBN-13
- 9780674503731
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 395
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988-05-18
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- James Clifford
Description
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. In discussions of ethnography, surrealism, museums, and emergent tribal arts, Clifford probes the late twentieth-century predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after culture.
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