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Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)

Oscar Hemer

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Description:In this unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives--a stream-of-consciousness understanding of "writing the city" of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of an IT metropolis to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, among others--to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in South Africa. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology). To get started finding Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In this unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives--a stream-of-consciousness understanding of "writing the city" of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of an IT metropolis to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant's Poetics of Relation, among others--to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in South Africa. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology). To get started finding Contaminations and Ethnographic Fictions: Southern Crossings (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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