| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 398 pages .) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 readers here for the first time - Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature's mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes |
| Notes |
"Originally published as Vincent Debaene, L'adieu au voyage : L'ethnologie française entre science et littérature (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2010) © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2010"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-385) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
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Ethnology -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Ethnology -- Authorship
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Literature and anthropology -- France -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Ethnology
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Ethnology -- Authorship
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Literature and anthropology
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Izzo, Justin, translator
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| ISBN |
9780226107233 |
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022610723X |
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