Rereading Cultural Anthropology

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Critiques -- On Being Out of Words -- Tactility and Distraction -- The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism -- Putting Hierarchy in Its Place -- Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic -- Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography -- The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference -- The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory -- 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 -- II. Reaction -- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology -- III. Witnessing -- Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru -- Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined -- IV. Poetics -- "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache -- V. What's Left, What's Emergent -- Nostalgia-A Polemic -- Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture -- VI. Circulations -- Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture -- Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings -- VII. Media -- Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? -- VIII. Experiment -- Tango -- Index