modernist ethnography

is a kind of ethnography depending not on being the first account or on discovering. It is of a parasitic, deconstructive bent, remaking and represents other representations.

Of a deconstructive bent, modernist ethnography depends on not being the first account, on not discovering. It remakes, re-presents, other representations. Experimental ethnography thus depends on preexisting, more conventional narrative treatments and is parasitic on them. Such ethnogrpahy is a comment on, a remaking of, a moral standard, realist account' (Marcus 1994:197)

is parasitic on preexisting, more conventional narrative treatments. It remakes, re-presents, other representations.

modernist ethnography, n.Definitions

modernist ethnography