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Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
Routes Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century Author:James Clifford When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford offers a new view of anthropology. It is, he says, a moving picture of a world that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the par... more »king lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion--translation--as openings into a complex modernity.« less