formations
that could only partly be accounted for by a focus on textual production.
T h e seminar thus pursued a limited set of emphases selfcritically
in an attempt to come to terms with the politics and poetics
of cultural representation. For a fuller account of the Santa Fe discussions
(including topics that have not found their way into this volume),
see the report published in Current Anthropology 26 (April 1985):
267—71. Some o f the more blatant exclusions produced by the organization
and focus o f the seminar are discussed there, as well as in the
Introduction that immediately follows this Preface