Pandian / McLean Crumpled Paper Boat

Experiments in Ethnographic Writing
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7326-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

Crumpled Paper Boat is an exploration of the possibilities and limits of a literary anthropology that bends the conventions of ethnographic voice and form to engage with writing as a material practice rather than a transparent representational medium.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pandian, Anand

McLean, Stuart J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.