Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. I. Critiques
5. On Being Out of Words 1
6. Tactility and Distraction 8
7. The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism 15
8. Putting Hierarchy in Its Place 34
9. Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic 48
10. Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography 69
11. The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference 77
12. The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory 87
13. 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 103
14. II. Reaction
15. Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology 124
16. III. Witnessing
17. Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru 152
18. Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined 181
19. IV. Poetics
20. "Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache 220
21. V. What's Left, What's Emergent
22. Nostalgia-A Polemic 252
23. Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture 267
24. VI. Circulations
25. Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture 296
26. Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings 319
27. VII. Media
28. Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? 356
29. VIII. Experiment
30. Tango 377
31. Index 391