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Far afield : French anthropology between science and literature
Adieu au voyage. English
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- Creator
- Vincent Debaene ; translated by Justin Izzo
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xv, 398 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226106908, 9780226107066, 9780226107233, 022610723X, 022610690X, 022610706X
- OCLC
- ocn854541703, on1086438908
- "Originally published as Vincent Debaene, L'adieu au voyage : L'ethnologie française entre science et littérature (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2010) © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2010."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-385) and index.
- Ethnography in the eyes of literature. The birth of a discipline ; The French exception ; Rhetoric, the document, and atmosphere ; "A literature that is not meaningless like our own" ; The lost unity of heart and mind -- L'adieu au voyage. "Ceci n'est pas un voyage" ; Les flambeurs d'hommes : the Ethiopian chronicles of Marcel Griaule ; L'afrique fantôme : Leiris and the "living document" ; Tristes tropiques : the search for correspondence and the logic of the sensible -- Literature in the eyes of ethnography. Literature, letters, and the social sciences ; Disputes over territory ; 1955-1970 : a new deal