A Crack in the Mirror : : Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology / / Jay Ruby.
This collection focuses on the concept of reflexivity and how it warps the portrayal of anthropological truth. The essays show how an understanding of reflexivity leads to cultural and methodological self-awareness. Contributors include Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Barbara Myerhoff, Jay Ruby, E...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Collective Reflexivity: Restoration of Behavior
- 2. Dramatic Ritual/Ritual Drama: Performative and Reflexive Anthropology
- 3. Life History Among the Elderly: Performance, Visibility, and Re-Membering
- 4. Ethnography as Trompe I'Oeil: Film and Anthropology
- 5. How to Look at Us Looking at the Yanomami Looking at Us
- 6. Anthropological Hermeneutics and the Problem of Alphabetic Literacy
- 7. Rhetoric and the Ethnographic Genre in Anthropological Research
- 8. Masked I Go Forward: Reflections on the Modern Subject
- 9. Ritual Undress and the Comedy of Self and Other: Bandelier's The Delight Makers
- 10. Social Explorers and Social Scientists: The Dark Continent of Victorian Ethnography
- 11. Occasions and Forms of Anthropological Experience
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index