| Description |
vi, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
From an Anthropologist's Point of View: The Literary / E. Valentine Daniel -- From a Literary Critic/Germanist's Point of View: Anthropology / Jeffrey M. Peck -- The Contributions / E. Valentine Daniel and Jeffrey M. Peck -- 1. The Culture in Poetry and the Poetry in Culture / Paul Friedrich -- 2. The Story of the Jackal Hunter Girl / Margaret Trawick -- 3. Fresh Lima Beans and Stories from Occupied Cyprus / Mary N. Layoun -- 4. Narrative Ethnography, Elite Culture, and the Language of the Market / Dan Rose -- 5. Exogamous Relations: Travel Writing, the Incest Prohibition, and Hawthorne's Transformation / Susan Stewart -- 6. The World in a Text: How to Read Tristes Tropiques / Clifford Geertz -- 7. Ethnic Selves/Ethnic Signs: Invention of Self, Space, and Genealogy in Immigrant Writing / Azade Seyhan -- 8. Turks as Subjects: The Ethnographic Novels of Paul Geiersbach / Arlene A. Teraoka |
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9. Narrative, Genealogy, and the Historical Consciousness: Selfhood in a Disintegrating State / John Borneman -- 10. Race and Ruins / Zita Nunes -- 11. Race under Representation / David Lloyd -- 12. Reading Culture: Anthropology and the Textualization of India / Nicholas B. Dirks -- 13. Ghostlier Demarcations: Textual Phantasm and the Origins of Japanese Nativist Ethnology / Marilyn Ivy -- 14. The Construction of America: The Anthropologist as Columbus / Michael Taussig -- 15. Crushed Glass, or, Is There a Counterpoint to Culture? / E. Valentine Daniel |
| Analysis |
Ethnology |
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Ethnology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anthropology in literature.
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Criticism.
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Culture.
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Ethnology -- Authorship.
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Literature and anthropology.
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| Author |
Daniel, E. Valentine.
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Peck, Jeffrey M., 1950-
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| LC no. |
94003997 |
| ISBN |
0520084632 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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