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It is observed that when anthropologists approach the historical and conceptual framework of their discipline with a critical evaluation, they begin to discuss the concepts of culture that constructs their disciplines with suspicion and re-read ethnographic texts as text constructions about texts in essence. In particular, the methods and reading practices borrowed from literary theory and the feature of ethnographic texts as authoritative texts supported by field studies have begun to be questioned. Thus, just like literary theorists, anthropologists have also worked on the political nature of representation in cultural criticism. This study traces this paradigm shift in anthropology, based on the works of Clifford Geertz and James Clifford, who have made theoretical attempts to re-examine the discipline by displaying similar approaches to the politicalness of representation in anthropology. In this context, the objections of these two anthropologists to the authoritarian self and naive other discourses, on which the discipline is traditionally based, while rereading classical ethnographies will be discussed.