UID:
edocfu_9959677602102883
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
0-8223-7326-2
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
Content:
Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They address topics as diverse as ritual expression in Cuba and madness in a Moroccan city, the HIV epidemic in South Africa and roadkill in suburban America. Essays alternate with methodological reflections on fundamental problems of writerly heritage, craft, and responsibility in anthropology. Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself. These talented writers show how inventive, appealing, and intellectually adventurous prose can allow us to enter more profoundly into the lives and worlds of others, breaking with conventional notions of representation and subjectivity. They argue that such experimentation is essential to anthropology’s role in the contemporary world, and one of our most powerful means of engaging it. Contributors. Daniella Gandolfo, Angela Garcia, Tobias Hecht, Michael Jackson, Adrie Kusserow, Stuart McLean, Todd Ramón Ochoa, Anand Pandian, Stefania Pandolfo, Lisa Stevenson, Kathleen StewartA School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
Note:
Introduction: Archipelagos, a voyage in writing / Paper Boat Collective -- Ambivalent archive / Angela Garcia -- Writing with care / Michael Jackson -- After the fact : the question of fidelity in ethnographic writing / Michael Jackson -- Walking and writing / Anand Pandian -- Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow -- Poetry, uncertainty, and opacity / Michael Jackson -- Taʻbīr : ethnography of the imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo -- Writing through intercessors / Stuart McLean -- Desire in cinema / Anand Pandian -- Flows and interruptions, or, So much for full stops / Stuart McLean -- Denial : A visit in four ethnographic fictions / Tobias Hecht -- Ethnography and fiction / Anand Pandian -- SEA / Stuart McLean -- Writing otherwise / Lisa Stevenson -- Origami conjecture for a Bembé / Todd Ramón Ochoa -- Ethnographic excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa -- Conversations with a hunter / Daniella Gandolfo -- On writing and surviving / Lisa Stevenson -- A proper message / Lisa Stevenson -- Fidelity and invention / Angela Garcia.
,
Issued also in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-6340-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-6329-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.1515/9780822373261
