Between Anthropology and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415287142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 192 str.

Jerome Dokic; Rose de Angelis; Rose Angelis

Opis

In this volume, literature becomes both a creation and creator of culture with anthropology as the observer/reader/interpreter. The dual role of literature and the repositioning of anthropology allow for a multiplicity of possibilities in reading, writing about, and interpreting people, places and perspectives, real or imagined. Crossing the traditional boundaries of the canon, the authors deal with fiction, poetry, and drama and cover an array of literary and anthropological concerns from the more palpable ethnographic studies to the liminal discussions of ritual. In an exciting new approach, they bring together in a common space those elements of both disciplines that remained disparate only because they remained separate. The collections suggests that these two core disciplines are not static, bounded entities but instead fluid sites of shifting cultural currents and academic interests; that neither literature nor anthropology is a unified, self-contained discipline; that critical discussions in each field do not emanate from a single centre but originate from a variety of sources and intersect at various, sometimes non-contiguous points.

Recenzje

' ... the essays are all insightful; they clearly show that great ethnographic riches can be found in narrative and travel writing, and they illustrate the value of anthropological readings of literature.' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part 1: Anthropology and Literature as Ethnography 1. The Ethnographic Novel: Finding the Insider's Voice Janet Tallman 2. Splendid Disciplines: American Indian Women's Ethnographic Literature Roseanne Hoefel 3. A Woman's Work is Never Done: Business and Family Politics in Umbertina and Rosa in Television Land Rose De Angelis Part 2: Anthropology, Ritual and Literature 4. Rituals to Cope with Change in Women's Lives: Judity Minty's Dancing the Fault Janet Ruth Heller 5. The Subversion of Ritual in the Theatre of Paloma Pedrero Susan P. Berardini 6. And Love Thee After: Necrophilia on the Jacobean Stage Richard W. Grinnell 7. Staging the Social Drama of Maghrebi Female Identity in the Theatre of Fatima Gallaire Janice B. Gross Part 3: Anthropology and Literature as Travelogue 8. Oriental Imprisonments: Habaneras as Seen by Nineteenth Century Women Travel Writers Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 9. Travelers Possessed: Generic Hybrids and the Caribbean Ivette Romero-Cesareo 10. Anthropology and Literature: Of Bedfellows and Illegitimate Offspring Mario Cesareo Notes on Contributors. Index.

O autorze

Rose De Angelis