Falling Through the ‘Savage Slot’: Postcolonial Critique and the Ethnographic Task

This paper observes that recent theoretical developments in anthropology present a challenge to ethnography understood as a holistic study involved in the task of translation. By addressing the critiques of postcolonial thinkers, and some postmodern thinkers, the paper seeks to re-formulate what the...

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Main Author: Austin-Broos, Diane J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1998
In: The Australian journal of anthropology
Year: 1998, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 295-309
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