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The Predicament of Culture

Harvard University Press eBooksPublished 31 December 1988
James Clifford
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Abstract

Clifford offers 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.

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Social Sciences