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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

James Lowry Clifford, George E. Marcus

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This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.

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This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.

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This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.

Key concepts: Ethnography, Poetics, Politics, Sociology, Anthropology, Face (sociological concept), Media studies, Gender studies

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