During its first six years (1986–1991), the journal Cultural Anthropology provided a unique forum for registering the lively traffic between anthropology and the emergent arena of cultural studies. The nineteen essays collected in Rereading Cultural Anthropology, all of which originally appeared in the journal, capture the range of approaches, internal critiques, and new questions that have characterized the study of anthropology in the 1980s, and which set the agenda for the present.
Drawing together work by both younger and well-established scholars, this volume reveals various influences in the remaking of traditions of ethnographic work in anthropology; feminist studies, poststructuralism, cultural critiques, and disciplinary challenges to established boundaries between the social sciences and humanities. Moving from critiques of anthropological representation and practices to modes of political awareness and experiments in writing, this collection offers systematic access to what is now understood to be a fundamental shift (still ongoing) in anthropology toward engagement with the broader interdisciplinary stream of cultural studies.
Contributors. Arjun Appadurai, Keith H. Basso, David B. Coplan, Vincent Crapanzano, Faye Ginsburg, George E. Marcus, Enrique Mayer, Fred Meyers, Alcida R. Ramos, John Russell, Orin Starn, Kathleen Stewart, Melford E. Spiro, Ted Swedenburg, Michael Taussig, Julie Taylor, Robert Thornton, Stephen A. Tyler, Geoffrey M. White
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Critiques
- On Being Out of Words / Stephen A. Tyler
- Tactility and Distraction / Michael Taussig
- The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism / Robert J. Thornton
- Putting Hierarchy in Its Place / Arjun Appadurai
- Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic / Alcida R. Ramos
- Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography / Ted Swedenburg
- The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference / Geoffrey M. White
- The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory / Vincent Crapanzano
- A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities / George E. Marcus
- Part II. Reaction
- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology / Melford E. Spiro
- Part III. Witnessing
- Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru / Orin Starn
- Peru in Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined / Enrique Mayer
- Part IV. Poetics
- "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache / Keith H. Basso
- Part V. What's Left, What's Emergent
- Nostalgia - A Polemic / Kathleen Stewart
- Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture / David B. Coplan
- Part VI. Circulations
- Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture / John Russell
- Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings / Fred Myers
- Part VII. Media
- Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village / Faye Ginsburg
- Part VIII. Experiment
- Index
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