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Routes : travel and translation in the late twentieth century / James Clifford.
- Title
- Routes : travel and translation in the late twentieth century / James Clifford.
- Author
- Clifford, James, 1945-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- 408 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration, colonization, capitalist expansion, immigration, labor mobility, and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters, Clifford's concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes, to recognize divergent histories, to sustain "postcolonial" and "tribal" identities in contexts of domination and globalization.
- Travel, diaspora, border crossing, self-location, the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them, the history of an entangled modernity, emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations, leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter, the impossible, inescapable tasks of translation.
- Subject
- Ethnology > Philosophy
- Ethnology > Fieldwork
- Travel > Philosophy
- Human geography
- Intercultural communication
- Ethnologie > Philosophie
- Ethnologie > Recherche sur le terrain
- Voyage > Philosophie
- Géographie humaine
- Communication interculturelle
- Géographie culturelle
- Géographie sociale
- Kulturella aspekter
- Etnologi
- Geografi
- Interculturele communicatie
- Reizen
- Anthropogeografie
- Ethnologie
- Feldforschung
- Kulturkontakt
- Philosophie
- Reise
- Ethnology > Philosophy
- Ethnology > Field work
- Travel > Philosophy
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-392) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: In Medias Res -- Travels. 1. Traveling cultures ; 2. A ghost among Melanesians ; 3. Spatial practices : fieldwork, travel, and the disciplining of anthropology ; 4. White ethnicity -- Contacts. 5. Four northwest coast museums : travel reflections ; 6. Paradise ; 7. Museums as cntact zones ; 8. Palenque log -- Futures. 9. Year of the ram : Honolulu, February 2, 1991 ; 10. Diasporas ; 11. Immigrant ; 12. Fort Ross meditation.
- ISBN
- 0674779606
- 9780674779600
- 0674779614
- 9780674779617
- 8474326478
- 9788474326475
- LCCN
- 96038454
- 9780674779617
- OCLC
- 35285449
- SCSB-10471442
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library