Ethnography Through Thick and Thin

by George E. Marcus

Book Overview

In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography through Thick and Thin updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. He examines, in particular, how the discipline's central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691002525
• ISBN13: 9780691002521
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Sterling book

Surprisingly, this book is much freer from jargon than the previous reviewer suggests. An excellent collection of challenging yet readable essays.