For a Postmodernist Writing in Anthropology

James Clifford’s Partial Truths is an introduction to anthropological collection of essays, perceived as illustrative a historical and theoretical movement, conceptual shift, consisting in sharp separation form from content its utmost degree, the fetishizing form. (Carstea 2021: 52) Ethnography, hybrid activity, thus appears mainly writing, collecting. Viewed most broadly, perhaps, it mode travel, way understanding getting around diverse world that, since sixteenth century, has been cartographically unified. I will argue, concurrence with postmodernist tenets anthropology, put forth by Clifford, that ethnographic knowledge could not be property single discourse or discipline: condition off-centredness distinct meaning systems, state being culture while looking at culture, permeates writing. Thus, important truth recorded provoked ethnography, Clifford acknowledges. The fictional, fashioned self invariably associated language, namely coded modes expression. subjectiveness he finds “not epiphany identity freely chosen, but cultural artefact,” (Greenblatt 2008: 257) because manoeuvres within possibilities constraints offered institutionalised assortment collective codes practices. conclude truths cannot other than inherently partial incomplete, fact which justifies substantiates experimental, artisanal quality tied work accounts. Textualization engenders circuitous movement insulates subsequently adds context event engulfing reality. Ethnography interpretation cultures.