ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|17 pages
Identifying versus identifying with ‘the Other’
Reflections on the siting of the subject in anthropological discourse
chapter 4|20 pages
Representations and the re-presentation of family
An analysis of divorce narratives
chapter 7|19 pages
Deconstructing colonial fictions?
Some conjuring tricks in the recent sociology of India
chapter 14|20 pages
Some political consequences of theories of Gypsy ethnicity
The place of the intellectual
chapter 15|20 pages
Appropriate anthropology and the risky inspiration of ‘Capability’ Brown
Representations of what, by whom, and to what end?
