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The Passion of Tiger Woods by Orin Starn
Duke University Professor Orin Starn casts his anthropological eye on two topics most academics wouldn't touch: celebrity scandal and golf.By dissecting the social, economic and political strands of "Tigergate," Starn's book The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal gets at the heart of American culture in the 21st Century.
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Writing Culture at 25: John Jackson, Jr.
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
Writing Culture at 25: Danilyn Rutherford
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
Writing Culture at 25: Michael Taussig
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
Writing Culture at 25: Hugh Raffles
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
Writing Culture at 25: Kim Fortun
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
Writing Culture at 25: George Marcus
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
Writing Culture at 25: James Clifford
Organized by the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and the Journal of Cultural Anthropology - co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Duke University Press, the Program in Literature, Marxism and Society, and the FHI. The publication in 1986 of Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography transformed the field of cultural anthropology. Edited by George Marcus and James Clifford, the volume’s ten essays critically assessed the ethnographic method of doing fieldwork and writing ethnography so long at the heart of the discipline. On this occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, we revisit Writing Culture to ponder the state of the field, the practice of ethnography, and the politics and poetics of “writing culture” today. The conference is free and open to the public. http://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/news-eventsPublished 1 year ago
