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THE LEGACIES OF WRITING CULTURE AND THE NEAR FUTURE OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FORM: A Sketch
Article first published online: 6 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01152.x
© 2012 by the American Anthropological Association
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MARCUS, G. E. (2012), THE LEGACIES OF WRITING CULTURE AND THE NEAR FUTURE OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FORM: A Sketch. Cultural Anthropology, 27: 427–445. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01152.x
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Keywords:
- [archives;
- collaboration;
- concept work;
- para-sites;
- studios]
ABSTRACT
This article argues that the most lively contemporary legacy of the 1980s Writing Culture critiques now lie outside, or beyond, conventional texts but, rather, in the forms that are integral to fieldwork itself. Fieldwork today requires a kind of collaborative concept work that stimulates studios, archiving, para-sites, which in turn constitute the most innovative expressions of ethnography, difficult to capture in the traditional genre.