The Confusion and New Turn of Ethnographic Writing——Read Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography

Zhian Ma

Abstract


Since the book Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of (Writing Culture hereafter) was published, it arouses great echo in the circle of anthropology, whose influence involved multiple humanities. The study of ethnography has entered an era of reflection. Based on this background, the author discusses the writing of ethnography. By discussing the concepts of “ethnography”, “ethnography poetics” and “ethnography politics”, this paper expounds the current confusion in ethnography writing and the new turn of ethnography writing after the 21st century. In order to provide help for the further development of ethnographic writing.

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Writing Culture; Ethnographic writing; Confusion; Turn

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36012/fhe.v3i1.3364

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