书目名称 | Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions | 副标题 | Southern Crossings | 编辑 | Oscar Hemer | 视频video | | 概述 | A profound literary examination of the anthropology of identity.Probes various kinds of boundaries in a kaleidoscopic text, examining intersections of identity both cultural/collective and personal/su | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives—a stream-of-consciousness understanding of “writing the city” of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas’s .Purity and Danger. and Edouard Glissant’s .Poetics of Relation., among others—to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice... | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | creolization; containment; autoethnography; literary anthropology; anthropological fictions; fiction; gend | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34925-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-34927-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-34925-7Series ISSN 2946-4218 Series E-ISSN 2946-4226 | issn_series | 2946-4218 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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