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Overview
This collection of specially commissioned papers addresses a shared problem: how anthropologists have created images of the places about which they write. The significance of place has been neglected in books recently published, which have attempted to examine ethnographic writing in terms of contemporary literary theory. The short aim of this volume is to comment upon a set of highly topical issues from the point of view of a distinct interest group. The long term aim is to provide a lasting account of regional writing as it seems to its practitioners in the 1980s.Editorials
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An original essay, a revised, previously published article, and 14 papers from a January 1987 conference on social anthropology at St. Andrews U., Scotland. The general theme is how anthropologists create images of the places they write about. Challenges the recent view of ethnology as an exercise in dichotomizing between Us and Them. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
August 1, 1990
Publisher
Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press ; 1990
Pages
376
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780874744828