The Predicament of Culture

Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art

James Clifford

    Introduction: The Pure Products Go Crazy

    Part One: Discourses

    1. On Ethnographic Authority

    2. Power and Dialogue in Ethnography: Marcel Griaule's Initiation

    3. On Ethnographic Self-Fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski

    Part Two: Displacements

    4. On Ethnographic Surrealism

    5. A Poetics of Displacement: Victor Segalen

    6. Tell about Your Trip: Michel Leiris

    7. A Politics of Neologism: Aimé Césaire

    8. The Jardin des Plantes: Postcards

    Part Three: Collections

    9. Histories of the Tribal and the Modern

    10. On Collecting Art and Culture

    Part Four: Histories

    11. On Orientalism

    12. Identity in Mashpee

    References

    Sources

    Index

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James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.