Verging on Extra-Vagance : : Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts . . . Showbiz / / James A. Boon.
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 ski...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 16 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Rehearsals. An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke
- A Similar Genre: Opera
- Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz
- PART ONE: RITUALS, REREADING, RHETORICAL TURNS
- Chapter One. Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively
- Chapter Two Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino)
- Chapter Three About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali; Its Relics Regained
- Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania
- PART TWO: MULTIMEDIATIONS: COINCIDENCE, MEMORY, MAGICS
- Chapter Four Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer- Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes")
- Chapter Five Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings)
- Chapter Six Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss
- PART THREE: CROSS-OVER STUDIES, SERIOCOMIC CRITIQUE
- A Little Polemic, Quizzically
- Chapter Seven Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed
- Chapter Eight Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer
- Chapter Nine Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate
- Chapter Ten Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?)
- Chapter Eleven Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others
- Chapter Twelve Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled
- Chapter Thirteen Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola
- Encores and Envoi. Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten
- Acknowledgments and Credits
- Notes
- References
- Index