George Marcus

George E. Marcus ( born 1946 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania) is an American anthropologist and university professor.

Biography

After school he studied anthropology at Yale University and Harvard University and was founded in 1980 initially Associate Professor (Associate Professor ) in Anthropology at Rice University in Houston. In 1986 he took there the reputation as a professor. At the same time he was between 1986 and 1991 the editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.

His influential work to date is Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics in Ethnography, which he published along with James Clifford and in which he expressed postmodern concerns about ethnographic authority and it raises the issues of cultural representation in the contemporary world.

Other 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 978-0813304670 (1992 )
• Ethnography through Thick and Thin, ISBN 978-0691002538 (1998)
• Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment, W. Russell Neuman co-authors and Michael MacKuen, ISBN 978-0226504698 (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

External links and sources

• PhilWeb bibliographical ARCHIVES
• Biography ( Williams Political Science )
• CHAMBERS Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1005, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2