Verging on extra-vagance : anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts-- showbiz
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Verging on extra-vagance : anthropology, history, religion, literature, arts-- showbiz
Princeton University Press, c1999
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-356) and index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9780691016313
内容説明
In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that skirts traditional boundaries. Boon follows Thoreau's lead by broaching subjects as diverse as Balinese ritual, Montaigne, Chaucer, Tarzan, Perry Mason, opera, and the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Burke, and Mary Douglas. He makes creative and often playful leaps among eclectic texts and rituals that do not hold single, fixed meanings, but numerous, changing, and exceedingly specific ones. Boon opens by exploring links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision (or lack of it) in contrasting religions. He considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from his own fieldwork, reflecting on ethnological museums, and making seriocomic connections between Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss.
In expansive discussions that touch on Manhattan and Sri Lanka, the Louvre and the "World of Coca-Cola" museum, willfully obscure academic theory and shamelessly commercial show business, Boon underlines the inadequacies of simple ideologies and pat generalizations. The book is a profound and eloquent exploration of cultural comparison by one of America's most original and innovative anthropologists.
目次
- List of IllustrationsPreface: AnThoreaupology: An InvitationRehearsals3An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke3A Similar Genre: Opera9Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life
- Showbiz14Pt. 1Rituals, Rereading, Rhetorical Turns21Ch. 1Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively23Ch. 2Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino)43Ch. 3About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali: Its Relics Regained73Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania97Pt. 2Multimediations: Coincidence, Memory, Magics101Ch. 4Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes")103Ch. 5Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings)124Ch. 6Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss143Pt. 3Cross-over Studies, Seriocomic Critique167A Little Polemic, Quizzically169Ch. 7Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed176Ch. 8Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer191Ch. 9Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate198Ch. 10Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?)211Ch. 11Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others221Ch. 12Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled230Ch. 13Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola249Encores and Envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten263Acknowledgments and Credits279Notes283References315Index357
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ISBN 9780691016320
内容説明
Extra-vagance refers to thought that skirts traditional boundaries. To follow this up, the author broaches subjects as diverse as Balinese ritual, Montaigne, Chaucer, Tarzan and Perry Mason, making leaps among eclectic texts and rituals that do not hold single, fixed meanings, but numerous, changing, and specific ones. The text explores links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision in contrasting religions. He considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from his own fieldwork, reflecting on ethnological museums, and making seriocomic connections between Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss.
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