Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition VII
4. Preface XXIII
5. Introduction: Partial Truths 1
6. Fieldwork in Common Places 27
7. Hermes' Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description 51
8. From the Door of His Tent: The Fieldworker and the Inquisitor 77
9. On Ethnographic Allegory 98
10. Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to Occult Document 122
11. The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology 141
12. Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System 165
13. Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memory 194
14. Representations Are Social Facts: Modernity and Post-Modernity in Anthropology 234
15. Afterword: Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers 262
16. Bibliography 267
17. Notes on Contributors 295
18. Index 297