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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... narrative ; everyday life is behavior . How might the two be related ? I discuss herein the relation of different kinds of texts to life and then compare the ethnographer's text to the literary story of Gilgamesh . THE NARRAtive Act ...
... narrative ; everyday life is behavior . How might the two be related ? I discuss herein the relation of different kinds of texts to life and then compare the ethnographer's text to the literary story of Gilgamesh . THE NARRAtive Act ...
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... narrative is an act , is not then behavior a narrative ? How do the dimensions of quadrant IV constitute the narrative of everyday life ? How does an observer who is participating in a world of which he has limited knowledge become the ...
... narrative is an act , is not then behavior a narrative ? How do the dimensions of quadrant IV constitute the narrative of everyday life ? How does an observer who is participating in a world of which he has limited knowledge become the ...
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... narrative coherence assigned to novels and histories . Literary theorist Frank Kermode ( 1979 ) in The Genesis of Secrecy traces this standard for narrative coherence to early Christian writing in which the apostles drew upon passages ...
... narrative coherence assigned to novels and histories . Literary theorist Frank Kermode ( 1979 ) in The Genesis of Secrecy traces this standard for narrative coherence to early Christian writing in which the apostles drew upon passages ...
Contents
MAKING MYSTERIES WITH NAVAJO MATERIALS | 5 |
FICTIONAL | 15 |
Point of View in Anthropological Discourse | 31 |
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