Literature and AnthropologyPhilip Adams Dennis, Wendell M. Aycock Literature and Anthropology consists of a collection of papers written by anthropologists, writers, and literary scholars in reference to a multitude of topics such as ethnographic mystery novels, Caribbean literature, anthropological poetry and shamanism. These papers were selected by an interdisciplinary committee at Texas Tech on the basis of their individual merits. |
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... death . Narrative provides the means for remembering the dead . Ideally , death marks the resolution of a life . It transforms the indeterminate , unfixable , uncontrollable life into a remembered life . Death is an occasion for ...
... death . Narrative provides the means for remembering the dead . Ideally , death marks the resolution of a life . It transforms the indeterminate , unfixable , uncontrollable life into a remembered life . Death is an occasion for ...
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... death . Today , pilgrims visit his shrine where they pray for his intervention in childbirth , schooling , and illness . The image to which they pray is the body wrapped in a monk's shroud , with its peacefully sleeping face turned ...
... death . Today , pilgrims visit his shrine where they pray for his intervention in childbirth , schooling , and illness . The image to which they pray is the body wrapped in a monk's shroud , with its peacefully sleeping face turned ...
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... Death restores respectability and allows the recognition of one's merits . Narrative , with the standards of coherence that turn lives into destinies , makes apotheosis possible . Still , the narration of lives on the occasion of death ...
... Death restores respectability and allows the recognition of one's merits . Narrative , with the standards of coherence that turn lives into destinies , makes apotheosis possible . Still , the narration of lives on the occasion of death ...
Contents
MAKING MYSTERIES WITH NAVAJO MATERIALS | 5 |
FICTIONAL | 15 |
Point of View in Anthropological Discourse | 31 |
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