Literature and anthropology
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Literature and anthropology
(Studies in comparative literature, no. 20)
Texas Tech University Press, 1989
- hard : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Based on papers presented at the Twentieth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, held Jan. 1987 at Texas Tech University -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographies
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Description
"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.
Table of Contents
Making Mysteries with Navajo Materials Mystery Literature and Ethnography: Fictional Detectives as Anthropologists Point of View in Anthropological Discourse Literature and the Study of Man Success in Shakespeare Vonnegut's Anthropology Thesis From Stendhal to Malinowski: Diary and Ethnographic Discourse The Literary Work as Cultural Document: A Carribbean Case Identity and Escape in Caribbean Literature Literature as Ethnographic Evidence: The Case of Mexican Narrative The Case of Sitt Marie Rose: An Ethnographic Novel from the Modern Middle East Mothe Earth in Amazonia and in the Andes: Darcy Ribeiro and Jose Maria Arguedas The Poet as Anthropologist The Shaman, Light and Dark Oliver La Farge, Writer and Anthropologist
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