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Telling wonders : ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus
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ISBN: 0472112031 9780472112036 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,


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The last of the race: the growth of a myth from Miltron to Darwin
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ISBN: 019811222X 0191670715 Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

The ethnography of manners : Hawthorne, James, Wharton
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ISBN: 0521461901 0521039665 051157035X Year: 1995 Volume: 90 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse of 'culture', a discourse that allowed writers to turn new social energies and fears into particular kinds of authorial expertise. Crossing a range of institutions (anthropology, literature, museums, law) and texts (novels, ethnographies, travel books, social theory), this study allows fiction to take its place in a web of social practices that categorize, display and regulate what Wharton calls 'the customs of the country'.

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Ethnologie dans la littérature --- Ethnology in literature --- Etnologie in de literatuur --- Gebruiken en gewoonten in de literatuur --- Manners and customs in literature --- Moeurs et coutumes dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Ethnology in literature. --- Literature and anthropology --- Literature and society --- Manners and customs in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- United States --- Wharton, Edith Newbold --- Knowledge --- Manners and customs --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- James, Henry --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Wharton, Edith, --- James, Henry, --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- ‏جميس، هينري،‏ --- جيمز، هنرى --- Jones, Edith Newbold --- Olivieri, David, --- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, --- Уортон, Эдит, --- Gouorton, Intith, --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ --- Hotorn, Natanijel --- Huo-sang --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh --- Hothorna, Netheniyala --- Готорн, Натаниэль --- האטארן, נאטאניעל, --- Huosang --- Huosang, Nasa'nier --- Nasa'nier Huosang --- 霍桑, --- 霍桑, 纳撒尼尔, --- 纳撒尼尔 霍桑, --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Social life and customs.

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