ethnographic authority

is a term referring to the ways in which authority over cultural representation has been shaped in ethnographic practices over the last century and how in the 19600s that authority came to be challenged or dispersed.

refers to the ways in which authority over cultural representation has been shaped in ethnographic proactices over the last century and how in the 19600s that authority came to be challanged or dispersed. Clifford shows the how 'experiential criteria of authority' -'an authority both scientifically validated and based on a unique personal experience' (26) -and colonialist modes of representation (unreflexively practiced) in the works of Boas, Malinowski, Mead, and Evans-Pritcahrd was called into question in the 1960s. he notes that 'while ethnographic writing cannot entirely esape the reductionist use of dichotomies and essences, it can at least struggle self-consciously to avoid portraying abstract, ahistorical 'others'' ((23) Clifford, James. 1983. 'On Ethnographic Authority,' in Writing Cultures

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ethnographic authority