Ethnographica Moralia : Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology / / edited by Neni Panourgiá and George E. Marcus.

Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line an...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press,, 2008.
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages) :; digital file(s).
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Other title:Introduction /
Interview with Clifford Geertz /
Contemporary fieldwork aesthetics in art and anthropology : experiments in collaboration and intervention /
Myth, performance, poetics : the gaze from classics /
The birth of anthropology out of a pause on Pausanias : Frazer's travel-translations reinterrupted and resumed /
Anamneses of a pestilent infant : the enigma of monstrosity, or beyond Oedipus /
Fragments of Oedipus : anthropology at the edges of history /
Carnal hermeneutics : from "Concepts" and "Circles" to "Dispositions" and "Suspense" /
"Real anthropology" and other nostalgias /
Canonical and anticanonical histories /
Anthropology at the French National Assembly : the semiotic aspects of a political institution /
"Life is dead here" : sensing the political in "no man's land" /
Text and transnational subjectification : media's challenge to anthropology /
Afterword : the ethnographer's "gaze" : some notes on visuality and its relation to the reflexive metalanguage of anthropology /
Summary:Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line and explores the different ways in which Geertz's anthropology has shaped the pedagogy of their disciplines and enabled discussions among them. Focusing on place and time, locations and temporalities, the essays in this volume interrogate the fixity of interpretation and open new spaces of inquiry. The volume addresses a wide audience from the humanities and the social sciences--anyone interested in the development of a new humanism that will relocate the human as a subject of social action.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-269) and index.
ISBN:0823280799
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Neni Panourgiá and George E. Marcus.