After Writing Culture

Allison James is Senior Lecturer in Applied Anthropology, Jenny Hockey is Lecturer in Social Policy and Andrew Dawson is Lecturer in Social Anthropology, all at the University of Hull.

'The accounts given are intrinsically interesting ...' - Sociology, Vol 33(1), February 1999

• 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?