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EX002 Reading "Introduction: Partial Truths" by James Clifford

EX002 Reading "Introduction: Partial Truths" by James Clifford

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from: Clifford, James. 1986. Introduction: Partial Truths. In: Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography ; a School of American Research Advanced Seminar, ed. by James Clifford, 1–26. Berkeley, Calif: Univ. of California Press.

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In this episode I read James Clifford's introduction from the
famous essay collection Writing culture: the poetics and politics
of ethnography  edited by James Clifford. In itself the chapter
might be one of the most important texts of the so called "writing
culture debate". I originally read this text for the seminar
"Writing culture - recording culture" I taught in spring of 2019 at
the university of Bern. (As a comment: I know, this is not very
well read, yet it was my first attempt using this approach for
working with seminar texts of my own seminars. In this context I
find it worth documenting. Maybe I will add another attempt of
reading this text at a later point in time. So far I find it
refreshingly irritating and healthily humbling to hear this result.
At least it reveals the aspect of reading out loud as
interpretation as seen from the perspective of annoyance and
imperfection.) Bibliography: Clifford, James. 1986. Introduction:
Partial Truths. In: Writing culture: the poetics and politics of
ethnography ; a School of American Research Advanced Seminar, ed.
by James Clifford, 1–26. Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.: Univ. of
California Press.