Young Mary Katherine (M.K.) returns to her eccentric scientist father's home, but his all-consuming quest to discover a tiny civilization in the neighboring forest drives them apart.
CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION. This phrase was coined by George Marcus and Michael Fischer to refer specifically to the uncertainty within the human sciences about adequate means of describing social reality.
I've noticed that quite a few people come to this blog searching for information about the crisis of representation. This morning I want to write the first of two posts on that subject, picking up on what I said in some posts from early 2008 (this one and this one).