Description |
xii, 398 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Harmony and argument : bringing forth the artful science / Ivan Brady -- Poetics and the recentering of anthropology / Roy Wagner -- Telling tales of the South Pacific / Lola Romanucci-Ross -- The trickster unmasked : anthropology and the imagination / James J. Preston -- "Parsifal" and semiotic structuralism / J. Iain Prattis -- The goddess as muse / Toni Flores -- Poetry as self-creation / Roger Williams Wescott -- Dialogic narration and the paradoxes of Masada / Edward M. Bruner and Phyllis Gorfain -- Point of view in anthropological discourse : the ethnographer as Gilgamesh / Miles Richardson -- In search of experience : the anthropological poetics of Stanley Diamond / Dan Rose -- On the language of Benjamin Lee Whorf / Robin Ridington -- Ethnographic genre and poetic voice / Regna Darnell -- Reversal / Dan Rose -- The speaker of tales has more than one string to play on / Dennis Tedlock |
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Postscript : Writing and not-writing / Ivan Brady |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-376) and index |
Subject |
Anthropological linguistics.
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Poetics.
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Author |
Brady, Ivan A.
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LC no. |
89070220 |
ISBN |
0847676366 (alk. paper) |
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0847676722 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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