Available Light by Geertz Clifford

Author:Geertz, Clifford.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992; Marshall Sahlins, How “Natives” Think, About Captain Cook, for Example, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

2. The simplest and most accessible of Sahlins’s many statements of his views is probably Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981, later expanded in a chapter of his Islands of History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. For Obeyesekere’s more general views, see his The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

3. “Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History,” The Journal of Modern History 65 (1993): 1–25.

4. Neither author has very much to say about this, though Obeyesekere promises us a psychoanalytic biography of Cook, relating Cook’s conception of himself as a Prospero “domesticating a savage land” when he is actually a Kurtz who “becomes the very savage he despises” to his “complex sexuality,” where perhaps more will be offered. For an extensive examination of the cultural environment (Wordsworth’s Cambridge) from which one explorer-discoverer emerged, a young astronomer killed in a manner rather similar to Cook, but on Oahu and thirteen years later, see Greg Dening, The Death of William Gooch: A History’s Anthropology, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.

5. P. Clastres, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians, tr. Paul Auster, New York: Zone Books, 1998. (Originally published as Chroniques des indiens Guayaki, Paris: Plon, 1972.)

6. J. Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

7. Ibid., pp. 21, 5, 2 17.

8. Ibid., pp. 10, 12.

9. Ibid., pp. 18, 12.

10. Clastres, Chronicle, pp. 91–92.

11. Clifford, Routes, p. 241.

12. Ibid., p. 56 and note 2; Clastres, Chronicle, p. 315.

13. Clastres, Chronicle, p. 276.

14. Ibid., p. 345.

15. Ibid., pp. 345–346.

16. Ibid., p. 15, italics in original.

17. Ibid., pp. 141–142.

18. Ibid., p. 348.

19. Ibid., p. 346.

20. Clifford, Routes, p. 91.

21. M. L. Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London: Routledge, 1992.

22. Ibid., pp. 6–7.

23. Clifford, Routes, pp. 302, 304, 303.

24. Ibid., pp. 343–344.

25. For a general view of this school of thought, see Clifford and Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. The emerging field of “cultural studies,” with which Clifford has become increasingly involved, provides even clearer examples of this sort of nonimmersive, hit-and-run ethnography.

26. Clastres, Society Against the State: The Leader as Servant and the Human Uses of Power among the Indians of the Americas, New York: Urizen Books, 1977.

27. J. Clifford, The Predicament of Culture, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.

28. P. Burke, The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; E. R. Wolf, Europe and the People without History, Berkeley: University of California Press; E. J. Hobsbawm, Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, New York: Praeger, 1963; Y. Elkana, Anthropologie der Erkenntnis, Frankfurt-am-Main: Shrkamp, 1988.

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