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Novel Approaches to Anthropology
Contributions to Literary Anthropology
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2013
Summary
This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies to interpreting fiction and travel writing written in the past and present. The authors integrate insights from the reflexive deconstructive turn in anthropology and from critical Marxist and feminist approaches that ground interpretation in the political, economic, and social constraints and experiences of everyday life. The contributors share the view that fiction, like all artistic expression, is rooted in specific historical and cultural contexts. Literature, like all artistic expression, stimulates a critical imagination by allowing readers to take a fresh look at their own society and culture.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7502-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7503-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
258
Product type
Edited Book
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List of Figures and Photograph No access
Acknowledgments No access
1. Introduction: Anthropological Aspects of the Novel No access Pages 1 - 26
2. A Shandean Description of Frakean "Ethnographic Behavior" No access Pages 27 - 72
3. Reading Defoe, the Eighteenth-Century Master Story-teller No access Pages 73 - 96
4. "A Genuine Victorian Oddity": Harriet Martineau's Fiction No access Pages 97 - 138
5. Mark Twain's Weapon of Mass Destruction: "The Human Race Has Only One Really Effective Weapon and that Is Laughter" No access Pages 139 - 170
6. The Creole Speaks: Daniel, Sandi, and the Other in Wide Sargasso Sea No access Pages 171 - 204
7. Ethnografiction and Reality in Contemporary Irish Literature No access Pages 205 - 226
8. Engaging Students with Fiction, Memoirs, and Film No access Pages 227 - 248
