Luxurious Emplacement: Elite Enclosure, as Far as the Eye Can See . . .

George E. Marcus is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He was previously chair of anthropology at Rice University for twenty-five years, where he founded the journal Cultural Anthropology (1986), coedited, with James Clifford, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986), coauthored, with Michael Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (1986), and conceived and directed the Late Editions series published by the University of Chicago Press through the decade of the fin de siècle. At UCI he founded and continues to direct (since 2006) the Center for Ethnography.