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Far Afield : French anthropology between science and literature /

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 this book - brought to English-language...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Debaene, Vincent (Autor)
Otros Autores: Izzo, Justin (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Ethnography in the eyes of literature. The birth of a discipline ; The French exception ; Rhetoric, the document, and atmosphere ; "A literature that is not meaningless like our own" ; The lost unity of heart and mind
  • L'adieu au voyage. "Ceci n'est pas un voyage" ; Les flambeurs d'hommes : the Ethiopian chronicles of Marcel Griaule ; L'afrique fantôme : Leiris and the "living document" ; Tristes tropiques : the search for correspondence and the logic of the sensible
  • Literature in the eyes of ethnography. Literature, letters, and the social sciences ; Disputes over territory ; 1955-1970 : a new deal.