"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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This question is related to the ongoing debate in anthropology about the ethics and politics of representation. It raises important questions about the role of the ethnographer as a mediator between the people they study and the wider world, and about the power dynamics involved in representing cultures that are not one's own. This is one of the central challenges facing ethnographers today and is part of the larger crisis in representation that anthropology is grappling with.

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