answer 4 questions according the book The Predicament of Culture, and need to quote from the book to substantiate him argument.
These are the four questions I need to address:
Who has the authority to speak for any group’s identity and authenticity?
What are the essential elements and boundaries of a culture?
How do self and “the other” clash in the encounters of ethnography, travel, and modern interethnic relations?
In what ways are late-twentieth century anthropologists face the predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after culture.
Here is some guidance to help you better address the questions.
Start understanding and discussing why Clifford sees culture as a predicament, what is the predicament why it is important to address it.
Critically think of the significant limitation of ethnographic authority found on traditional ethnographies and other anthropological representations of cultures.
Critically think of the politics of representation and issues of cultural authenticity.
Critically think of the traditional or modernist ways of understanding culture vs. as more reflexive (postmodern) understanding of culture.
Critically questions ethnographic authority in shaping representations of culture and the production of culture as text.
Discuss why, according to Clifford, the ethnographic authority embodies a crisis of representation, and therefore meaning of ‘culture’ itself which shapes ethnographic authority must be re-examined.
Think of the authority of a single voice vs, polyvocality or polyphony.
Think of his practice of ethnographic and polyphonic representation of ‘culture,’ and how he claims that culture is shaped by conjuncture rather than essence; and how “culture” is comprised of many voices.
Are there actual rather than imagined boundaries of culture?
What is culture according to Clifford?
Address his argument that modes of ethnographic representation which express many voices, more accurately reflect ‘culture’ than ethnographies which utilize a single voice.
Please make sure you quote Clifford from his text to substantiate his arguments.