TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clifford,James
TI  - The predicament of culture: twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art 
SN  - 0674698436
U1  - 306.09 20
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - ETNOLOGIA
KW  - HISTORIA
KW  - SIGLO 20
KW  - FILOSOFIA DE LA ETNOLOGIA
KW  - MAGISTER EN MUSICA LATINOAMERICANA
KW  - Lavanderos, Alejandro
N2  - "The Predicament of Culture" is 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. His critique raises questions of global significance: Who has the authority to speak for any group's identity and authenticity? What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture? How do self and "the other" clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations? In discussions of ethnography, surrealism, museums, and emergent tribal arts, Clifford probes the late-twentieth century predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after culture
ER  -