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James Clifford is the author of several widely cited and translated books, including The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (1988), Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century (1997), and Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013). He was co-editor (with George Marcus) of ...
2 days ago · May 2024. A historian by training, Clifford has had an enormous impact, not only in history and anthropology but in the humanities at large. A theorist and practitioner of ethnographic history, books include The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art (1988), Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth ...
James Clifford is Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recent Guggenheim recipient and an External Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
Author. James Clifford is Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Book Details. 416 pages. 6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches. Harvard University Press. Social Science / Anthropology & Archaeology. When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand?
Clifford has for some time termed his approach “realism.”. Other interchangeable names are “ethnographic- historical realism” (27), “contingent realism” (69), or “decentered realism” (40). By that, he means “an attitude of critical openness,” as a way of “engaging with complex historical transformation” (13).
James Clifford is Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Book Details. 398 pages. 6 x 9-1/4 inches. Harvard University Press. Social Science / Anthropology & Archaeology. From this author. Recommendations.
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Raised in New York City and Vermont, James Clifford attended Haverford College and Stanford before receiving his PhD in Social and Intellectual History from Harvard in 1977. For the past 28 years he has taught in the interdisciplinary History of Consciousness PhD program at U. C. Santa Cruz.
