Fictionalizing anthropology : encounters and fabulations at the edges of the human / Stuart McLean.
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than...
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University of Minnesota Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I. Anthropology: A Fabulatory Art
- 1 An Encounter in the Mist
- 2 Talabot
- 3 Fake
- 4 Anthropologies and Fictions
- 5 Knud Rasmussen
- 6 The Voice of the Thunder
- 7 Metaphor and/or Metamorphosis
- 8 "They Aren't Symbols- They're Real "
- Part II. In Between
- 9 Liminality: An Old Story?
- 10 The Dead Have Never Been Modern
- 11 The God Who Comes
- 12 Between the Times
- 13 Anthropology =ΜΈ Ethnography
- 14 Fabulatory Comparativism
- Part III. Gyro Nights: Inhuman Culture / Inhuman Nature
- 15 Islands before and after History
- 16 Papay Gyro Nights
- 17 The Time of the Ancestors?
- 18 In the Beginning Were the Giants
- 19 Tiamaterialism
- 20 Blubberbomb
- 21 A Globe of Fire
- 22 Nighttime
- Afterword: Anthropology Is Art Is Frog
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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