Modernist anthropology : from fieldwork to text / edited and with an introduction by Marc Manganaro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manganaro, Marc, 1955- editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Fieldwork.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Literature and anthropology.

Anthropologists' writings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based "science" of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and ideological process called "text-making." This collection of essays reflects the ongoing cross-fertilization between literary criticism and anthropology. Focusing on texts written or influenced by anthropologists between 1900 and 1945, the work relates current perspectives on anthropology's discursive nature to the literary period known as "Modernism.".The essays, each demonstrating anthropology's profound influence on this important cultural movement, are organized according to discourse type: from the comparativist text of Frazer, to the ethnographies of Boas, Benedict, Mead, and Hurston, and on to the surrealist experiments of the College de Sociologie. Meanwhile the book's orientation shifts from essays that approach anthropology from the vantage points of literariness and textual power to those that contemplate what bearing the junction of cultural theory and anthropology can have upon present and future social institutions.In addition to the editor, contributors include Vincent Crapanzano, Deborah Gordon, Richard Handler, Arnold Krupat, Francesco Loriggio, Michele Richman, Marty Roth, Marilyn Strathern, Robert Sullivan, John B. Vickery, and Steven Webster.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

Textual Play, Power, and Cultural Critique: An Orientation to Modernist Anthropology / Manganaro, Marc

FRAZER: TEXTUAL REEVALUATIONS

Frazer and the Elegiac: The Modernist Connection / Vickery, John B.

Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Reading Lesson / Roth, Marty

Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology / Strathern, Marilyn

ETHNOGRAPHY AS DISCOURSE: THE ERA OF THE MONOGRAPH

Irony in Anthropology: The Work of Franz Boas / Krupat, Arnold

The Politics of Ethnographic Authority: Race and Writing in the Ethnography of Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston / Gordon, Deborah

Ruth Benedict and the Modernist Sensibility / Handler, Richard

ANTHROPOLOGICAL MODERNISM: LANGUAGE, THEORY, AND PRAXIS

Anthropology and Modernism in France: From Durkheim to the Collège de sociologie / Richman, Michèle

Anthropology, Literary Theory, and the Traditions of Modernism / Loriggio, Francesco

Marxism and the "Subject" of Anthropology / Sullivan, Robert

The Historical Materialist Critique of Surrealism and Postmodernist Ethnography / Webster, Steven

Afterword / Crapanzano, Vincent

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-328) and index.

ISBN:

9780691633558

069163355X

9781400861415

1400861411

OCLC:

884013070