{"product_id":"routes-travel-and-translation-in-the-late-twentieth-century-9780674779617","title":"Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen culture makes itself at home in motion  where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture  one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade  James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesnt stand still  that reveals itself en route  in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum.  In this collage of essays  meditations  poems  and travel reports  Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion  translation  as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous  a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration  colonization  capitalist expansion  immigration  labor mobility  and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California  from Vancouver to London  he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters  Cliffords concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes  to recognize divergent histories  to sustain \"postcolonial\" and \"tribal\" identities in contexts of domination and globalization.  Travel  diaspora  border crossing  self-location  the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them  the history of an entangled modernity  emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations  leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter  the impossible  inescapable tasks of translation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965849886773,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674779614","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674779617.jpg?v=1788370407","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/routes-travel-and-translation-in-the-late-twentieth-century-9780674779617","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}