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George E. Marcus
Researcher at Williams College
Publications - 137
Citations - 24477
George E. Marcus is an academic researcher from Williams College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Ethnography. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 133 publications receiving 22929 citations. Previous affiliations of George E. Marcus include Rice University.
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Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
James Clifford,George E. Marcus +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explore the ways in which writing culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years. But they do not discuss the role of writing culture in the development of ethnographies.
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Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography
TL;DR: In this paper, an emergent methodological trend in anthropological research that concerns the adaptation of long-standing modes of ethnographic practices to more complex objects of study is surveyed, in terms of testing the limits of ethnography, attenuating the power of fieldwork, and losing the perspective of the subaltern.
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Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
TL;DR: Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study as discussed by the authors.
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Ethnography through thick and thin
TL;DR: In this article, an evolving proposal for multi-sited research is presented, and traces in parallel Ethnographic projects are traced in Parallel Ethnography Projects and Power on the Extreme Periphery: The Perspective of Tongan Elites in the Modern World System.