This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the ''writing culture'' debates of the 1980s. It includes discussion of issues such as: * the concept of caste in Indian society * scottish ethnography * how dreams are culturally conceptualised * representations of the family * culture as conservation * gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan * representation in rural Japan * people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia * representing identity of the New Zealand Maori.
Author(s): Andrew Dawson, Jenny Hockey, Allison James
Series: ASA Monographs
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 273
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: the road from Santa Fe......Page 12
Representing the anthropologist's predicament......Page 27
Identifying versus identifying with 'the Other': reflections on the siting of the subject in anthropological discourse......Page 45
Representations and the re-presentation of family: an analysis of divorce narratives......Page 62
The tooth butterfly, or rendering a sensible account from the imaginative present......Page 82
Crossing a representational divide: from west to east in Scottish ethnography......Page 97
Deconstructing colonial fictions? Some conjuring tricks in the recent sociology of India......Page 114
Representing and translating people's place in the landscape of northern Australia......Page 133
Echoing the past in rural Japan......Page 155
The Museum as mirror: ethnographic reflections......Page 172
Edifying anthropology: culture as conversation; representation as conversation......Page 188
Who is representing whom? Gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan......Page 205
Representing identity......Page 219
Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity: the place of the intellectual......Page 235
Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of 'Capability' Brown: representations of what, by whom, and to what end?......Page 255
Name index......Page 275
Subject index......Page 280
