"What Right Do Ethnographers Have to Represent a People or Culture

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Multiple Choice

"What right do ethnographers have to represent a people or culture to which they don't belong?" This question illustrates

• A) anthropology's crisis in representation-questions about the role of the ethnographer and the nature of ethnographic authority.
• B) the threat that the World Wide Web poses to anthropologists who are less and less needed to write about and publish accounts of cultural diversity.
• C) the fact that anthropologists are, after all, colonial agents of the industrialized West.
• D) a lack of leadership in the American Anthropological Association.
• E) the problem inherent in anthropology's overspecialization.

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