Anthropologist
Antinomy
Aphorism
Art for art's sake
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
Clifford Geertz
Colonialism
Consciousness
Criticism
Critique
D. H. Lawrence
Deconstruction
Elbert Hubbard
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Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
Family resemblance
Field research
Franz Boas
Genre
Georges Bataille
Hayden White
Historical materialism
Historicism
Holism
Ideology
Irony
Jacques Derrida
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-François Lyotard
Kenneth Burke
Literary criticism
Literary modernism
Literary theory
Literature
Materialism
Mikhail Bakhtin
Modernism
Modernity
Monograph
Narcissism
Narrative
Narratology
Negative capability
Orientalism
Philosophy
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Positivism
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Pragmatism
Reality principle
Roland Barthes
Romanticism
Scientism
Social anthropology
Social science
Social theory
Sociology
Surrealism
The Golden Bough
The Other Hand
The Postmodern Condition
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodore Dreiser
Theory
Thick description
Thought
Utilitarianism
Writing
Émile Durkheim
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- ISBN 9780691604428
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
