Anthropological Poetics

Ivan Brady (Anthology Editor) , Edward M. Bruner (Contributor) , Regna Darnell (Contributor) , Toni Flores (Contributor) , Phyllis Gorfain (Contributor) , J Lain Prattis (Contributor) ,

Anthropological Poetics

Ivan Brady (Anthology Editor) , Edward M. Bruner (Contributor) , Regna Darnell (Contributor) , Toni Flores (Contributor) , Phyllis Gorfain (Contributor) , J Lain Prattis (Contributor) ,

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In Anthropological Poetics, 14 distinguished anthropologists cast their imaginations self-consciously in a search for less conventional forms of understanding and expression. These essays provide an eloquent demonstration that there is more than one way to say anthropology and that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said with equal effectiveness any other way.

Chapter 1 Harmony and Argument: Bringing Forth the Artful Science
Chapter 2 Poetics and the Recentering of Anthropology
Chapter 3 Telling Tales of the South Pacific
Chapter 4 The Trickster Unmasked: Anthropology and the Imagination
Chapter 5 "Parsifal" And Semiotic Structuralism
Chapter 6 The Goddess as Muse
Chapter 7 Poetry as Self-Creation
Chapter 8 Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada
Chapter 9 Point of View in Anthropological Discourse: The Ethnographer as Gilgamesh
Chapter 10 In Search of Experience: The Anthropological Poetics of Stanley Diamond
Chapter 11 On the Language of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Chapter 12 Ethnographic Genre and Poetic Voice
Chapter 13 Reversal
Chapter 14 The Speaker of Tales Has More than One String to Play On

Product details

Published	11 Dec 1990
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	410
ISBN	9780742583863
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Ivan Brady

Contributor

Edward M. Bruner

Contributor

Regna Darnell

Contributor

Toni Flores

Contributor

Phyllis Gorfain

Contributor

J Lain Prattis

Contributor

James J. Preston

Contributor

Miles Richardson

Contributor

Robin Ridington

Contributor

Lola Romanucci-Ross

Contributor

Dan Rose

Contributor

Dennis Tedlock

Contributor

Roy Wagner

Contributor

Roger Wescott

...a milestone in the coming of age of interpretive anthropology.

William L. Rodman, McMaster University
^RAnthropological Poetics^I deserves a hearty welcome. It brings ethno-poetics back home.

Paul Rabinow
This is the most important collection from within anthropology to address recent efforts to understand the relationship between anthropology, literature, and romanticism...

George E. Marcus, Rice University
This volume, which is considerably enriched by Ivan Brady's concise and perceptive introductions to each essay, will make a lasting contribution to anthropology; it may enable us to open our senses to the world and hear the confounding pulse of life that beats so strongly in the world.

American Anthropologist
These essays provide an eloquent demonstration that there is more than one way to say anthropology and that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said with equal effectiveness any other way.

Wisconsin Bookwatch
This is a very interesting collection of essays. It affords both the specialist and the outsider a fascinating overview of the efforts of a discipline.

Comparative Literature