Culture / contexture : explorations in anthropology and literary studies / edited by E. Valentine Daniel and Jeffrey M. Peck.

By: Daniel, E Valentine
Contributor(s): Peck, Jeffrey M
Language: English Publisher: Berkeley, London : University of California Press, 1996.Description: vii, 410p. : ill. ; 23cm.ISBN: 0520084460
Contents:
Contents: Introduction. From an anthropologist's point of view / E.V. Daniel; From a literary critic/Germanist's point of view / J.M. Peck; The contributors / E.V. Daniel, J.M. Peck; I, Narrative fields. The culture in poetry and the poetry in culture / Paul Friedrich; The story of the jackal hunter girl / M. Trawick; Fresh lima beans and stories from occupied Cyprus / M.N. Layoun; Narrative ethnography, elite culture and the language of the market / Dan Rose; Exogamous relations: travel writing, the incest prohibition and Hawthorne's Transformation / Susan Stewart; The world in a text / Clifford Geertz; II, Identity markings. Ethnic selves / ethnic signs: immigrant writing / A. Seyhan; Turks as subjects: the ethnographic novels of Paul Geiersbach / A.A. Teraoka; Narrative, genealogy and the historical consciousness / J. Borneman; Race and ruins / Zita Nunes; Race under representation / David Lloyd; III, Unsettling texts. Reading culture: anthropology and the textualization of India / N.B. Dirks; Ghostlier demarcations: origins of Japanese nativist ethnology / Marilyn Ivy; The construction of America / M. Taussig; Crushed glass, or is there a counterpoint in culture? / E.V. Daniel.
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Contents: Introduction. From an anthropologist's point of view / E.V. Daniel; From a literary critic/Germanist's point of view / J.M. Peck; The contributors / E.V. Daniel, J.M. Peck; I, Narrative fields. The culture in poetry and the poetry in culture / Paul Friedrich; The story of the jackal hunter girl / M. Trawick; Fresh lima beans and stories from occupied Cyprus / M.N. Layoun; Narrative ethnography, elite culture and the language of the market / Dan Rose; Exogamous relations: travel writing, the incest prohibition and Hawthorne's Transformation / Susan Stewart; The world in a text / Clifford Geertz; II, Identity markings. Ethnic selves / ethnic signs: immigrant writing / A. Seyhan; Turks as subjects: the ethnographic novels of Paul Geiersbach / A.A. Teraoka; Narrative, genealogy and the historical consciousness / J. Borneman; Race and ruins / Zita Nunes; Race under representation / David Lloyd; III, Unsettling texts. Reading culture: anthropology and the textualization of India / N.B. Dirks; Ghostlier demarcations: origins of Japanese nativist ethnology / Marilyn Ivy; The construction of America / M. Taussig; Crushed glass, or is there a counterpoint in culture? / E.V. Daniel.