Writing Culture

This book is a classic theoretical work of contemporary anthropological reflection, a landmark achievement. In the decades since its publication, it has become the most cited work in the international anthropological community and has had a wide-ranging impact in the humanities and other social sciences. The eleven essays included in this volume address the persistent epistemological and political dilemmas of ethnographic representation. Focusing on the writing component of anthropological knowledge production, they review classic texts of ethnography from various periods and openly suggest diverse possibilities for future ethnographic writing and cultural studies. The discussions sparked by this book have redefined many important questions in anthropology, such as who should conduct fieldwork, how it should be conducted, and what topics should be studied, stimulating the anthropological imagination. It now seems that Writing Culture has become a standard reference point for discussions of postmodernism and ethnographic representation within the anthropological community, becoming a classic itself by fundamentally questioning all the anthropological classics.

2023-12-01

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