The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology

Talal Asad

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Asad, Talal. "The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology". Writing Culture, edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, pp. 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520946286-009

Asad, T. (1986). The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology. In J. Clifford & G. Marcus (Ed.), Writing Culture (pp. 141-164). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520946286-009

Asad, T. 1986. The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology. In: Clifford, J. and Marcus, G. ed. Writing Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520946286-009

Asad, Talal. "The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology" In Writing Culture edited by James Clifford and George E. Marcus, 141-164. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520946286-009

Asad T. The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology. In: Clifford J, Marcus G (ed.) Writing Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1986. p.141-164. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520946286-009

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

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

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