Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate
throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J.
Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments,
its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has
to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is
important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social
science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This
second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen
since the book's original publication.