Textual life of the savants : ethnography, Iceland and the linguistic turn
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Textual life of the savants : ethnography, Iceland and the linguistic turn
（Studies in anthropology and history, v. 18）
Harwood Academic, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hardcover ISBN 9783718657216
Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
From Life to TextTimes, Lives and Medieval TextsLives, Texts and Modern RealitiesThe Factual, the Fictive and the FabulousNovel and EthnographyThe Metaphor of Cultural TranslationSagas, History, and Social LifeThe Power of Words and the Context of WitchcraftFetishized Language, Symbolic Capital, and Social IdentityEnskilment and Sea: From Rules to PracticeFast Fish and Loose Talk: Beyond Textualist AppropriationConclusion: Towards a Theory of Living Discourse
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: softcover ISBN 9783718657223
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First Published in 1995. This book focuses on the role and significance of texts and textualism for anthropology and ethnography and, more specifically, the understanding of particular aspects of Icelandic society and history. The discussion is centred on a range of issues; moving between general social theory and ethnographic details, the immediate present and the distant past, language and production, fieldwork and the act of writing, texts (sagas, novels, and ethnographies) and real life. In each case, however, it draws attention to what may be called a pragmatist approach, a concern with action and agency as they constitute, and are constituted by, social life. Such an approach, I hold, is an important and timely remedy to current textualism, the trendy theoretical tradition often described as the linguistic turn.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I From Life to Text
- 2. The conventional metaphor of cultural translation
- 3. The factual, the fictive and the fabulous: novel and ethnography
- Part II Times, Lives and Medieval Texts
- 4. Sagas, history, and social life
- 5. The power of words and the context of witchcraft
- Part III Lives, Texts and Modern Realities
- 6. Fetishized language, symbolic capital, and social identity
- 7. Beyond environmental Orientalism
- 8. Conclusions: towards a theory of living discourse
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