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Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield-brought to English-language readers here for the first time-Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature's mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes. The relationship between anthropology and literature in France is one of careful curiosity. Literary writers are wary about anthropologists' scientific austerity but intrigued by the objects they collect and the issues they raise, while anthropologists claim to be scientists but at the same time are deeply concerned with writing and representational practices. Debaene elucidates the richness that this curiosity fosters and the diverse range of writings it has produced, from Proustian memoirs to proto-surrealist diaries. In the end he offers a fascinating intellectual history, one that is itself located precisely where science and literature meet.

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The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributors-anthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curators-explore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film, and exhibition making. Exploring phenomena such as human perception, memory, visuality, ritual, time, and globalization, they apply montage

Ethnology --- Motion pictures in ethnology --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A8 --- 7.01 --- 791.43.01 --- 069.4 --- 111.852 --- 82.01 --- Antropologie ; over montage --- Moving-pictures in ethnology --- Visual anthropology --- Philosophy --- Authorship --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Filmkunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Museologie ; werkwijzen mbt het opzetten van tentoonstellingen --- Filosofie ; Kunstfilosofie. Esthetica --- Literatuur ; essays over literatuur --- Ethnology-Philosophy. --- Ethnology-Authorship. --- Motion pictures in ethnology. --- Philosophy. --- Authorship.