One of our senior colleagues recently reflected, somewhat ruefully, that anthropology has lost control over its two most basic terms, culture and ethnography; that, in the age of deconstruction and critical postmodernism, we have entered a conceptual free-for-all in which our disciplinary quest has no terrain of its own anymore. Our tropes have been taken over, our signs seized.

— John and Jean Comaroff, Preface, Ethnoraphy and the Historic Imagination. [via]

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