ISBN:
9780822373261
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 p)
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4 illustrations
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Ethnology in literature
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Ethnology Authorship
;
Anthropology in literature
;
Anthropology Authorship
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Abstract:
Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They address topics as diverse as ritual expression in Cuba and madness in a Moroccan city, the HIV epidemic in South Africa and roadkill in suburban America. Essays alternate with methodological reflections on fundamental problems of writerly heritage, craft, and responsibility in anthropology. Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself. These talented writers show how inventive, appealing, and intellectually adventurous prose can allow us to enter more profoundly into the lives and worlds of others, breaking with conventional notions of representation and subjectivity. They argue that such experimentation is essential to anthropology’s role in the contemporary world, and one of our most powerful means of engaging it. Contributors. Daniella Gandolfo, Angela Garcia, Tobias Hecht, Michael Jackson, Adrie Kusserow, Stuart McLean, Todd Ramón Ochoa, Anand Pandian, Stefania Pandolfo, Lisa Stevenson, Kathleen StewartA School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue -- Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing -- 1. The Ambivalent Archive ANGELA GARCIA -- 2. Writing with Care -- 3. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing -- 4. Walking and Writing -- 5. Anthropoetry -- 6. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity -- 7. Taʿbīr: Ethnography of the Imaginal -- 8. Writing through Intercessors -- 9. Desire in Cinema -- 10. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops -- 11. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions -- 12. Ethnography and Fiction -- 13. SEA -- 14. Writing Otherwise -- 15. Origami Conjecture for a Bembé -- 16. Ethnographic Excess -- 17. Conversations with a Hunter -- 18. On Writing and Surviving -- 19. A Proper Message -- 20. Fidelity and Invention -- Epilogue -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822373261
URL:
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