ISBN:
9780226106908
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (415 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Far Afield : French Anthropology between Science and Literature
DDC:
306.0944/0904
Keywords:
Literature and anthropology - France - History - 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield-brought to English-language readers here for the first time-Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature's mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; The Ethnographer's Two Books; Science and Literature: A Genealogy; I. Ethnography In the Eyes of Literature; 1. The Birth of a Discipline; 2. The French Exception; 3. Rhetoric, the Document, and Atmosphere; 4. "A literature that is not meaningless like our own"; 5. The Lost Unity of Heart and Mind; II. L'Adieu au Voyage; 6. "Ceci n'est pas un voyage"; 7. Les Flambeurs d'hommes: The Ethiopian Chronicles of Marcel Griaule; 8. L'Afrique fantôme: Leiris and the "Living Document"
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Tristes Tropiques: The Search for Correspondence and the Logic of the SensibleIII. Literature In the Eyes of Ethnography; 10. Literature, Letters, and the Social Sciences; 11. Disputes over Territory; 12. 1955-1970: A New Deal; Conclusion; Literature; Ethnography; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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