"What right do ethnographers have to represent a people or culture to which they don't belong?" This question illustrates
A. 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.
B. the problem inherent in anthropology's overspecialization.
C. anthropology's crisis in representation-questions about the role of the ethnographer and the nature of ethnographic authority.
D. the fact that anthropologists are, after all, colonial agents of the industrialized West.
E. a lack of leadership in the American Anthropological Association.
Answer: C
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