...Allen Chun This is a review essay of James Clifford’s recent book, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century , viewed in the context of his entire trilogy. The thematic transition from roots and routes to returns is the evolution of an approach to cultural relocations and indigenous...

...’’ as if they were fixed entities, exactly alike or completely foreign to each other, is more than problematic. James Clifford, in a beautiful text that explores the idea of cultural travel, has formulated the following sensible questions...

... assigned to others by nature or tradition, or at least to have achieved mas- tery over them. James Clifford proposed years ago that cosmopolitanism might be a welcome replacement for the overtasked term culture. As we see above, cosmopolitanism is now also praised because it is perceived, however...

... – 17 . Brenner Hildegard . 1980 . La politique artistique du national-socialism e . Paris : Maspero . Clifford James . 1988 . “ On Orientalism .” In The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art , 255 – 76 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University...

... discipline. James Clifford wrote some years ago about the transformations of what he called “ethnographic authority,” a cultural mode widely disseminated in Western culture in the early twentieth century and deeply tied to the structures of imperial power, which he saw as having eroded and collapsed...

..., Bruce Andrews, David Antin, Arakawa & Madeline Gins, John Ashbery, Walter Benjamin, Bruce Boone, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Lenny Bruce, Basil Bunting, Stanley Cavell, Hélène Cixous, James Clifford, Lucille Clifton, Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley, Tina Darragh, Alan Davies...

... subject. As James Clifford has suggested in a slightly different context, “Seen in their resistance to classification, [such elusive objects] could”— but usually don’t—“remind us of our lack of self-­possession, of the artifices we employ to gather a world around us.”9 The power to bestow recogni...

... it widely alluring. Secularism itself has various definitions, some more antireligious 11. Edward W. Said, “Religious Criticism,” in The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cam- bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), 290. 12. Said, “Religious Criticism,” 291. 13. James Clifford...

... from Edward Said to James Clifford have suggested by word or example.30 What is important is that we ing that the last two works, devoted to demonstrating the importance of commercial and religious interactions in producing the societies and regions in question, nevertheless...

... poem-of-place has all the in such poems as ‘‘Fly, Da Mo’o and generic blurring and textual uncan- Me’’ and ‘‘De Wen Sen Me Girl’s niness of James Clifford’s ‘‘Year of Home which ends with this scene...

... Clifford, “Partial Truths,” in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ed. James Clifford and George E. Marcus (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 1–27; Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson, Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain (London...

... of the Academy Social Text 51 (1997): 68–73. 2. James Clifford, ‘‘On Ethnographic Authority Representations 1, no. 2 (1983): 118–46. 3. Notable exceptions include Robert F. Murphy, The Dialectics of Social Life: Alarms...

...). 29. Abbé Barruel, Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, trans. Robert Clifford (London: E. Booker, 1798). See also Seamus Deane, The French Revolution and Enlight- enment in England, 1789–1832 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988), 11, 22–24, 112–13; Darrin M. McMahon...

... and economics in London. He was also cofounder of CMF and editor of numerous books on Mexican and Latin American photography. 10. I am indebted to the early work of James Clifford on the subject of ethnography and colonialism, particularly to his seminal book The Predicament of Culture (Cambridge, Mass...

... . Clifford James , 1988 . The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Djagalov Rossen . 2020 . “ The Communist University for Toilers of the East (KUTV) .” Global South Studies: A Collective Publication...

... otherwise progressive—or otherwise necromanic—causes? Or must we dispense with the residual dignity of Ideology as a useful cate- gory of historical or political analysis, as Philip Converse, Angus Campbell, and other political scientists did in studying “mass belief systems,” and as Clifford...

... from outsiders such as James Clifford and the hydra Tseng 2003.9.12 08:11 Kroeber / Alfred Kroeber and Anthropological History 149 of theorists from my own discipline. But when the horsefeathers are shov...

... and Human Rights 195 only be preserved by a new branch of expertise devoted to its redemption. This was our version of the ‘‘salvage’’ model (James Clifford’s term)—the repeated rescue of culture or cultures perpetually imagined as on the brink of extinction—that did so much to legitimate...

... had not read Clifford Geertz on “thick description” or on “ideology as a cultural system.”11 In Europe and America, postwar historians cultivated a new social history, whose focus on the modalities of material life uncovered a low poli- tics alongside the traditional narrative of high...

..., 61–66. For the translation, see Clifford Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 44. 30. S. G. MacCormack, “Change and Continuity in Late Antiquity: The Ceremony of Adventus,” Historia 21 (1972): 721–51, notes...