"Placing the local in its historical and political context, while at the same time showing how migrations and media have made the world smaller, "Rereading Cultural Anthropology" brings together (some of the best) work which has learned from and gone beyond the recent critiques of anthropological writing."--Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley

Introduction vii
On Being out of Words / Stephen A. Tyler 1
Tactility and Distraction / Michael Taussig 8
The Rhetoric of Ethnographic Holism / Robert J. Thornton 15
Putting Hierarchy in Its Place / Arjun Appadurai 34
Reflecting on the Yanomami: Ethnographic Images and the Pursuit of the Exotic / Alcida R. Ramos 48
Occupational Hazards: Palestine Ethnography / Ted Swedenburg 69
The Politics of Remembering: Notes on a Pacific Conference / Geoffrey M. White 77
The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory / Vincent Crapanzano 87
A Broad(er)side to the Canon, Being a Partial Account of a Year of Travel Among Textual Communities in the Realm of Humanities Centers, and Including a Collection of Artificial Curiosities / George E. Marcus 103
Cultural Relativism and the Future of Anthropology / Melford E. Spiro 124
Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru / Orin Starn 152
Peru in Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's "Inquest in the Andes" Reexamined / Enrique Mayer 181
"Speaking with Names": Language and Landscape Among the Western Apache / Keith H. Basso 220
Nostalgia- A Polemic / Kathleen Stewart 252
Fictions that Save: Migrants' Performance and Basotho National Culture / David B Coplan 267
Race and Reflexivity: The Black Other in Contemporary Japanese Mass Culture / John Russell 296
Representing Culture: The Production of Discourse(s) for Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings / Fred Myers 319
Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? / Faye Ginsburg 356
Tano / Julie Taylor 377
Index 391