ISBN:
9780520323698
,
0520323696
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (420 pages)
Series Statement:
UC Press voices revived
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Daniel, E. Valentine Culture/Contexture
DDC:
808.0663
Keywords:
Ethnology Authorship
;
Literature and anthropology
;
Anthropology in literature
;
Culture
;
Criticism
;
Littérature et anthropologie
;
Anthropologie dans la littérature
;
Critique
Abstract:
The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields. Literary critics have learned to ""anthropologize"" their studies--to ask questions about the construction of meanings under historical conditions and refle
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Culture/Contexture: An Introduction -- PART ONE. Narrative Fields -- 1. The Culture in Poetry and the Poetry in Culture -- 2. The Story of the Jackal Hunter Girl -- 3. Fresh Lima Beans and Stories from Occupied Cyprus -- 4. Narrative Ethnography, Elite Culture, and the Language of the Market -- 5. Exogamous Relations: Travel Writing, the Incest Prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation -- 6. The World in a Text: How to Read Tristes Tropiques -- PART TWO. Identity Markings
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Ethnic Selves/Ethnic Signs: Invention of Self, Space, and Genealogy in Immigrant Writing -- 8. Turks as Subjects: The Ethnographic Novels of Paul Geiersbach -- 9. Narrative, Genealogy, and the Historical Consciousness: Selfhood in a Disintegrating State -- 10. Race and Ruins -- 11. Race under Representation -- PART THREE. Unsettling Texts -- 12. Reading Culture: Anthropology and the Textualization of India -- 13. Ghostlier Demarcations: Textual Phantasm and the Origins of Japanese Nativist Ethnology -- 14. The Construction of America: The Anthropologist as Columbus
Description / Table of Contents:
15. Crushed Glass, or, Is There a Counterpoint to Culture? -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index
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