Sense and Non-Sense in Contemporary Ethno/Graphic Practice and Theory

Author:

Howes David1

Affiliation:

1. Concordia University

Abstract

This essay presents an overview and critique of the “textual revolution” in anthropological theory and practice. The author argues that this revolution, which commenced with Geertz′s suggestion that cultures be treated “as texts” and culminated in Writing Culture, has precipitated a flight from theory to style. It is further argued that anthropologists should abandon “the model of the text” and re-learn how to use their senses. Various examples are given of how a more in-depth understanding of cultures can be achieved by sensing them than reading/writing them.

Publisher

Consortium Erudit

Reference58 articles.

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2. ASAD, TALAL 1986 The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology, In James Clifford and George Marcus (eds.), Writing Culture, Berkeley: University of California Press.

3. BECKER, ALTON 1979 Communicating Across Diversity, In Alton Becker and Aram Yengoyan (eds.), The Imagination of Reality, Norwood: Ablex.

4. BEIDELMAN, TOM (ed.) 1971 The Translation of Culture, London: Tavistock.

5. BERLIN, BRENT and PAUL KAY 1970 Basic Color Terms, Berkeley: University of California Press.

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