Ethnographica Moralia Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology / edited by Neni Panourgiá and George E. Marcus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marcus, George E.

Panourgiá, Neni, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and anthropology.

Art and anthropology.

Anthropology--Political aspects.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

NY Fordham University Press 2008

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line and explores the different ways in which Geertz's anthropology has shaped the pedagogy of their disciplines and enabled discussions among them. Focusing on place and time, locations and temporalities, the essays in this volume interrogate the fixity of interpretation and open new spaces of inquiry. The volume addresses a wide audience from the humanities and the social sciences--anyone interested in the development of a new humanism that will relocate the human as a subject of social action.

Contents:

Introduction / Neni Panourgiá and George E. Marcus

Interview with Clifford Geertz / Neni Panourgiá and Pavlos Kavouras

Contemporary fieldwork aesthetics in art and anthropology : experiments in collaboration and intervention / George E. Marcus

Myth, performance, poetics : the gaze from classics / Richard P. Martin

The birth of anthropology out of a pause on Pausanias : Frazer's travel-translations reinterrupted and resumed / James A. Boon

Anamneses of a pestilent infant : the enigma of monstrosity, or beyond Oedipus / Athena Athanasiou

Fragments of Oedipus : anthropology at the edges of history / Neni Panourgiá

Carnal hermeneutics : from "Concepts" and "Circles" to "Dispositions" and "Suspense" / Eleni Papagaroufali

"Real anthropology" and other nostalgias / Kath Weston

Canonical and anticanonical histories / Antonis Liakos

Anthropology at the French National Assembly : the semiotic aspects of a political institution / Marc Abélès

"Life is dead here" : sensing the political in "no man's land" / Yael Navaro-Yashin

Text and transnational subjectification : media's challenge to anthropology / Louisa Schein

Afterword : the ethnographer's "gaze" : some notes on visuality and its relation to the reflexive metalanguage of anthropology / Maria Kakavoulia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-269) and index.

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ISBN:

9780823280797

0823280799

OCLC:

1111384763

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access