Far Afield : French anthropology between science and literature / Vincent Debaene ; translated by Justin Izzo.

By:

Debaene, Vincent [author.]

Contributor(s):

Izzo, Justin [translator.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226107233
022610723X

Uniform titles:

Adieu au voyage. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Far Afield.DDC classification:

306.0944/0904 23

LOC classification:

GN308.3.F8 D4313 2014

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Contents:

Ethnography in the eyes of literature. The birth of a discipline ; The French exception ; Rhetoric, the document, and atmosphere ; "A literature that is not meaningless like our own" ; The lost unity of heart and mind -- L'adieu au voyage. "Ceci n'est pas un voyage" ; Les flambeurs d'hommes : the Ethiopian chronicles of Marcel Griaule ; L'afrique fantôme : Leiris and the "living document" ; Tristes tropiques : the search for correspondence and the logic of the sensible -- Literature in the eyes of ethnography. Literature, letters, and the social sciences ; Disputes over territory ; 1955-1970 : a new deal.

Summary: 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 this book - 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.Translation of: Debaene, Vincent., Adieu au voyage., Paris : Gallimard, [2010], ©2010

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"Originally published as Vincent Debaene, L'adieu au voyage : L'ethnologie française entre science et littérature (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2010) © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-385) and index.

Translated from the French.

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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 this book - 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.

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