Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism t...(展开全部)

Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism t...(展开全部)

When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn’t stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marke...(展开全部)

哈佛大學歷史學博士，目前為美國加州大學聖塔克魯茲分校（University of California, Santa Cruz）意識歷史學系榮譽教授，並於2011年當選美國藝術與科學院院士（American Academy of Arts and Sciences），為當代文化反思論述之最重要學者，其跨學科觀點與批判包含人類學與民族誌、田野調查工作、原住民研究、藝術、歷史，博物館學，與文學分析。著有《個人與神話》、《文化的困境》、《路徑：20世紀後期的旅行與翻譯》（1997）、《復返：21世紀成為原住民》（2013）、《人類學邊緣》等書，同時與喬治．馬庫斯（George Marcus）編輯有《書寫文化》。

哈佛大學歷史學博士，目前為美國加州大學聖塔克魯茲分校（University of California, Santa Cruz）意識歷史學系榮譽教授，並於2011年當選美國藝術與科學院院士（American Academy of Arts and Sciences），為當代文化反思論述之最重要學者，其跨學科觀點與批判包含人類學與民族誌、田野調查工作、原住民研究、藝術、歷史，博物館學，與文學分析。著有《個人與神話》、《文化的困境》、《路徑：20世紀後期的旅行與翻譯》（1997）、《復返：21世紀成為原住民》（2013）、《人類學邊緣》等書，同時與喬治．馬庫斯（George Marcus）編輯有《書寫文化》。

When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn’t stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marke...(展开全部)

James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique ra...(展开全部)

"The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. His critique ra...(展开全部)

James Clifford is Professor, Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz.