Crumpled Paper Boat (eBook, PDF)

Experiments in Ethnographic Writing
Redaktion: Anand Pandian, Pandian

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Ramon Ochoa, Anand Pandian, Stefania Pandolfo, Lisa Stevenson, Kathleen StewartA School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373261
• Artikelnr.: 54674633

Autorenporträt

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, also published by Duke University Press. Stuart McLean teaches anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Prologue / Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean  1
Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing / Paper Boat Collective  11
1. The Ambivalent Archive / Angela Garcia  29
2. Writing with Care / Michael Jackson  45
3. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing /
Michael Jackson  48
4. Walking and Writing / Anand Pandian  68
5. Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow  71
6. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity / Michael Jackson  91
7. Ta'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo  94
8. Writing through Intercessors / Stuart McLean  116
9. Desire in Cinema / Anand Pandian  119
10. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops / Stuart McLean 
126
11. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions / Tobias Hecht  130
12. Ethnography and Fiction / Anand Pandian  145
13. SEA / Stuart McLean  148
14. Writing Otherwise / Lisa Stevenson  168
15. Origami Conjecture for a Bembé / Todd Ramón Ochoa 172
16. Ethnographic Excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa  185
17. Conversations with a Hunter / Daniella Gandolfo 189
18. On Writing and Surviving / Lisa Stevenson  207
19. A Proper Message / Lisa Stevenson  209
20. Fidelity and Invention / Angela Garcia  222
Epilogue / Kathleen Stewart  225
Bibliography  231
Contributors   241
Index  243