James Clifford
James Clifford (born 1945) is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work combines perspectives from history, literature, and anthropology.
Literature
Articles
- "On Ethnographic Surrealism", Comparative Studies in Society and History 23:4 (October 1981), pp 539-564.
- "Histories of the Tribal and the Modern", in The Predicament of Culture, Harvard University Press, 1988, pp 189-214.
- "On Collecting Art and Culture", in The Predicament of Culture, Harvard University Press, 1988, pp 215-251.
Books by Clifford
- Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World, University of California Press, 1982; new edition, Duke University Press, 1992
- with George Marcus (eds.), Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1986
- Retóricas de la antropología, trans. José Luis Moreno-Ruíz, Madrid: Ediciones Júcar, 1991. (in Spanish)
- The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art, Harvard University Press, 1988
- Dilemas de la Cultura. Antropología. literatura y arte en la perspectiva posmoderna, trans. Carlos Reynoso, Editorial Gedisa: Barcelona, 1995, 2001. (in Spanish)
- Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, 1997.
- On the Edges of Anthropology (Interviews) , Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
- Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century, Harvard University Press, 2013.
