'Today there is a related paradigm in advanced art on the left: the artist as ethnographer. The object of contestation remains, at least in part, the bourgeois institution of autonomous art, its exclusionary definitions of art, audience, identity. But the subject of association has changed: it is now the cultural and/or ethnic other in whose name the artist often struggles.’

Foster, Hal, "The Artist as Ethnographer?" in The Traffic in Culture : Refiguring Art and Anthropology, edited by George E. Marcus and Fred R. Myers, Berkeley: University of California Press, (1995): (p.304).