Far Afield

French Anthropology between Science and Literature

AvVincent Debaene

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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 Far Afield - 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. The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists' scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries.In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-04
Mått:15 x 23 x 2 mm
Vikt:595 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226107066
Översättare:Justin Izzo

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

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Vincent Debaene is associate professor of French at Columbia University. He is the critical editor of the Pleiade edition of the collected works of Claude Levi-Strauss. Justin Izzo is assistant professor of French Studies at Brown University.

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"This remarkable and ambitious work expertly takes both a long-view and close-ups of the main currents of twentieth-century French anthropological research and thinking. Travel writing, anthropology's relation to surrealism, the dissolution of science-literature unity in belles-lettres, and structuralism into post-structuralism are all systematically addressed with great insights, great turns of phrase (caught well in translation), and fresh interpretations." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"