GEORGE MARCUS is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin, Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography (with James Clifford), Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Movement in the Social Sciences (with Michael Fischer), and editor of Critical Anthropology Now: Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas.