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Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive Hardcover - 2008
by Johannes Fabian
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""Ethnography as Commentary" is a timely contribution to contemporary problems of anthropological knowledge-making. It is an argument about what ethnography has come to and an experiment about what it might still become more than two decades after the intense period of critiquing anthropology's emblematic research practices."--George E. Marcus, co-author of "Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary"
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- Title Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive
- Author Johannes Fabian
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press
- Date 2008
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780822342618 / 0822342618
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 1.52 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
- Library of Congress subjects Communication and culture, Ethnology - Authorship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008007703
- Dewey Decimal Code 306
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- Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/03/2008, Page 21
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