1. See, for example, Marcus and Fischer (1986) and Clifford and Marcus (1987).
2. Marcus and Cushman (1982) discuss in detail the conventions that shaped the final written ethnography.
3. ‘Every field of scholarly production has its own “rules” of propriety, which may remain implicit and only be known to the initiate’ (Bourdieu, 1984:601). That this symbolic capital is utilised explicitly on occasion can be little doubted by a close reading of a passage like the following:
4. The recent controversy and some of the reaction surrounding the publication of Freeman’s analysis (Freeman 1984) of Margaret Mead’s Samoan ethnography is partly symptomatic of this attitude.
5. The literature, though not large, continues to grow. Some crucial texts are Said 1979; Asad 1973; Moniot 1976; Copans 1974; Fabian 1983.