George Marcus
George E. Marcus (* 1946 in Brownsville , Pennsylvania ) is an American anthropologist and university professor .
biography
After attending school, he studied anthropology at Yale University and Harvard University and was first associate professor ( associate professor ) for anthropology at Rice University in Houston . In 1986 he accepted a professorship there. At the same time he was editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology between 1986 and 1991 .
His most influential work to date is Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics in Ethnography , which he co- edited with James Clifford, in which he raised postmodern concerns about ethnographic authorities and raised the problems of cultural representation in the contemporary world.
Further publications on this and other topics were:
- Anthropology as Cultural Critique , co-author Michael MJ Fischer (1986)
- Rereading Cultural Anthropology (1992)
- Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth Century America (Institutional Structures of Feeling) , co-author Peter Dobkin Hall , ISBN 978-0-8133-0467-0 (1992)
- Ethnography through Thick and Thin , ISBN 978-0-691-00253-8 (1998)
- Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment , co-authors W. Russell Neuman and Michael MacKuen , ISBN 978-0-226-50469-8 (2000)
- The sentimental citizen. Emotion in democratic politics , (2003)
- Ocasião: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, A Collaboration , co-author Fernando Mascarenhas , ISBN 0-7591-0777-7 , 2005
Web links and sources
- PHILWEB BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARCHIVE
- Biography (Williams Political Science)
- CHAMBERS Biographical Dictionary , pp. 1005, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Books by George E. Marcus (Amazon)
- ↑ George E. Marcus, Michael MJ Fischer: Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences . University of Chicago Press, 1999, ISBN 0-226-50450-6 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Pennsylvania State University Press
- ↑ Political Quarterly Bulletin No. 45 (review)
- ↑ Brown University (PDF file; 74 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marcus, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcus, George E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cultural anthropologist, university professor, and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brownsville , Pennsylvania |