Transcendent individual : towards a literary and liberal anthropology / Nigel Rapport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapport, Nigel, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Philosophy.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Authorship.

Individuality.

Ethnology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropological theory and ethnographic writing.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Manifesto Towards a liberal and literary appreciation of the conscious and creative individual; Writing Individual Knowledge and Personal Relations Eschewing the paths to impersonalisation; 'Going Meta' Structure and creativity; Individual Narratives 'Writing' as a mode of thought which gives meaning to experience; Movement and Identity Narrations of 'home' in a world in motion; ~Surely Everything Has Already Been Said About Malinowski's Diary!~; Writing Fieldnotes On the conventionalities of note-taking and taking note, local and academic

Domino Worlds At home on the dominoes-table in WanetHard-sell or Mumbling ~Right~ Rudely The hold of conversation: the power of discursive surfaces; Discourse and Creativity Sheikh Alwan: Fathalla: Sid Askrig; Individual Morality Between liberalism, anthropology and biology; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-214) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-70059-8

1-134-70060-1

0-203-44827-8

1-280-31870-8

0-203-26955-1

9780203448274

OCLC:

560368014