After Writing Culture : Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (Hardcover)

1 Introduction: the road from Santa Fe 2 Representing the anthropologist’s predicament 3 Identifying versus identifying with ‘the Other’: reflections on the siting of the subject in anthropological discourse 4 Representations and the re-presentation of family: an analysis of divorce narratives 5 The tooth butterfly, or rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present 6 Crossing a representational divide: from west to east in Scottish ethnography 7 Deconstructing colonial fictions? Some conjuring tricks in the recent sociology of India 8 Representing and translating people’s place in the landscape of northern Australia 9 Echoing the past in rural Japan 10 The Museum as mirror: ethnographic reflections 11 Edifying anthropology: culture as conversation; representation as conversation 12 Who is representing whom? Gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan 13 Representing identity 14 Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity: the place of the intellectual 15 Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of ‘Capability’ Brown: representations of what, by whom, and to what end?