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Culture writing : literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world / Tim Watson

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Watson, Tim, 1965-
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Literature and anthropology in the midcentury Atlantic world
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xvii, 218 pages ; 25 cm.

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Contents
Introduction: culture writing -- The anglophone Atlantic world. "Jumble sales are the same the world over": Barbara Pym and transatlantic anthropology; The sun also sets: anthropology at the end of empire in Ursula le Guin and Laura Bohannan; "Every guy has his own Africa": development and anthropology in Saul Bellow and Bessie Head -- The francophone Atlantic world. "L'ethnologue de soi-même": Édouard Glissant and francophone anthropology; Cultures in contact: memoir and ethnography in Michel Leiris -- Afterword: postcolonial anthropological literature: Amitav Ghosh and Erna Brodber.
Summary
"Culture Writing argues that the period of decolonization witnessed dynamic exchanges between writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. The book analyzes writers who engaged professionally with anthropology--Barbara Pym, Ursula Le Guin, Saul Bellow, Édouard Glissant--and anthropologists who adopted literary forms--Laura Bohannan, Michel Leiris, and Claude Lévi-Strauss"--
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9780190852672 hardcover
0190852674 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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