Far afield : French anthropology between science and literature /
Debaene, Vincent,author.
Izzo, Justin,translator.
"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 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.
Ethnology
Ethnology
Literature and anthropology
Adieu au voyage.