tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post8279626866688874527..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: THE ARRIVAL TROPEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-4777885785916497222011-07-12T11:11:37.633-06:002011-07-12T11:11:37.633-06:00This is a book I read in grad school, and kept. It...This is a book I read in grad school, and kept. It's pretty central to the realization, which was new in the 80s, that ethnography is a LITERARY discipline, not a purely research discipline. In other words, the ethnographer is a person, a person writing, not a disembodied recording angel with no engagement with the people being observed. You must participate in a community, as you well know, in order to gain access to the thoughts and feelings and ideas of the people in that community.<br /><br />"Writing Culture" is a book I still recommend to folks, along with a couple of others, all from that same period, all covering these ideas (which were new then) in different ways. One of these is James Clifford's "The Predicament of Culture."Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com