"This is a book that will attract a great deal of attention among
anthropologists and social scientists in general. It is a great
advance on earlier critiques of Writing Culture (1986) that have
emerged at intervals, a large number of them cited by the
contributors. Its strength lies particularly in its
transdisciplinary perspectives and the clarity of both critique and
new representations. The prologue is a tour de force." . Joan
Vincent, Professor Emerita, Barnard College/Columbia University
Two decades after the publication of Clifford and Marcus' volume
Writing Culture, this collection provides a fresh and diverse
reassessment of the debates that this pioneering volume unleashed.
At the same time, Beyond Writing Culture moves the debate on by
embracing the more fundamental challenge as to how to conceptualise
the intricate relationship between epistemology and
representational practices rather than maintaining the original
narrow focus on textual analysis. It thus offers a
thought-provoking tapestry of new ideas relevant for scholars not
only concerned with 'the ethnographic Other', but with
representation in general.
Olaf Zenker is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the
University of Bern, Switzerland. He did his Ph.D. at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle on the Irish language
and identity in Catholic West Belfast. His publications focus on
conflict and identity formations, including a study on
communicative constructions of group membership among homeless
people: Techniken zur kommunikativen Herstellung von
Gruppenzugehorigkeit (Berlin, 2004).
Karsten Kumoll is Programme Manager at the German Council of
Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), advising the Federal and
State (Lander) governments on the system of higher education and
research. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of
Freiburg. Its subject was Marshall Sahlins' complete works and it
was subsequently published as: Kultur, Geschichte und die
Indigenisierung der Moderne: Eine Analyse des Gesamtwerks von
Marshall Sahlins (Bielefeld, 2007)."
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