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The document discusses how anthropological theories can be seen as fictional perspectives rather than objective truths. It contains a main article and several comments and a reply discussing how anthropological works are authored from a situated perspective rather than providing an objective view of culture.

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Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology [and Comments and

Reply]

Marilyn Strathern; M. R. Crick; Richard Fardon; Elvin Hatch; I. C. Jarvie; Rix Pinxten; Paul
Rabinow; Elizabeth Tonkin; Stephen A. Tyler; George E. Marcus

Current Anthropology, Vol. 28, No. 3. (Jun., 1987), pp. 251-281.

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